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July 24, 2022
PNG Post-Courier Angry voters in East Sepik and Hela have destroyed ballot boxes and set fire to ballot papers after finding that their names were not on the common roll in Papua New Guinea’s general election. No reports were received of people or election officials being hurt in the violence. Polling started on Monday and ... <a title="Disgruntled PNG voters destroy ballot boxes, set fire to voting papers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/24/disgruntled-png-voters-destroy-ballot-boxes-set-fire-to-voting-papers/" aria-label="Read more about Disgruntled PNG voters destroy ballot boxes, set fire to voting papers">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2022
By Paul Bungtabu and Poreni Umau in Rabaul It took 20 years and just three votes to unshackle anti-corruption champion Dr Allan Marat’s grip on the Rabaul Open seat in East New Britain Province in Papua New Guinea’s general election. His reign finally came to an end at 5pm yesterday when Rabaul Open Returning Officer ... <a title="Three vote defeat in PNG election and Rabaul’s Marat set to retire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/24/three-vote-defeat-in-png-election-and-rabauls-marat-set-to-retire/" aria-label="Read more about Three vote defeat in PNG election and Rabaul’s Marat set to retire">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2022
By Rebecca Kuku in Port Moresby Fresh fighting among candidates’ supporters has left another two dead in Hela’s Margarima in Papua New Guinea’s general election. This takes the death toll to nine in the province since fighting broke out on July 4 – and nationwide election-related deaths have topped 45. Cars and trucks were set ... <a title="Two more die in Hela fighting to take total to 9 deaths in PNG election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/24/two-more-die-in-hela-fighting-to-take-total-to-9-deaths-in-png-election/" aria-label="Read more about Two more die in Hela fighting to take total to 9 deaths in PNG election">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2022
By Melisha Yafoi of the PNG Post-Courier “It’s okay, we’ll just sit here and they can come kill us.” These chilling words are from a defenceless woman (name withheld) who has seen first-hand the continuous killings in Papua New Guinea’s Porgera Valley, Enga province and accepting what could be the ultimate fate for her and ... <a title="Porgera villagers helpless, unsafe in their homes as ‘warlords’ kill freely" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/23/porgera-villagers-helpless-unsafe-in-their-homes-as-warlords-kill-freely/" aria-label="Read more about Porgera villagers helpless, unsafe in their homes as ‘warlords’ kill freely">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2022
By Miriam Zarriga of the PNG Post-Courier A brutal massacre in Porgera town yesterday afternoon in which 18 innocent people were killed has rocked Enga province and shocked Papua New Guinea. Local police chief acting Superintendent George Kakas was shocked by the act of violence in the wake of the country’s national elections — he ... <a title="18 people hacked to death in Porgera in under an hour amid PNG elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/21/18-people-hacked-to-death-in-porgera-in-under-an-hour-amid-png-elections/" aria-label="Read more about 18 people hacked to death in Porgera in under an hour amid PNG elections">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2022
By Miriam Zarriga of the PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea’s Police Commissioner David Manning has fired the first warning shot in the hunt for candidates who were involved in disrupting the national elections in Enga province. He is deploying a multipolice and army taskforce to hunt down 15 suspected candidates to bring them to justice ... <a title="PNG police taskforce to hunt down 15 candidate suspects over Enga crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/18/png-police-taskforce-to-hunt-down-15-candidate-suspects-over-enga-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about PNG police taskforce to hunt down 15 candidate suspects over Enga crisis">Read more</a>
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July 7, 2022
PNG Post-Courier Chaos. That is the one word for Papua New Guinea’s 2022 national general election. Unfortunately, the election has descended to that level, and polling is slowly slipping out of the set timetables as chaotic scenes nationwide, manpower problems, logistics issues and unexpected postponements hit the schedule. In the capital Port Moresby, voters were ... <a title="PNG’s capital residents shocked with second deferral of polling day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/07/pngs-capital-residents-shocked-with-second-deferral-of-polling-day/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s capital residents shocked with second deferral of polling day">Read more</a>
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July 7, 2022
EDITORIAL: The PNG Post-Courier The headline of this editorial, we believe, expresses what every eligible voter, business house and candidate in the nation’s capital feels towards the Electoral Commission of PNG. To make a decision like this, the deferral of polling, at the very last minute on the day when this important event is to ... <a title="Post-Courier: The incompetency of PNG’s Electoral Commission must stop" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/07/post-courier-the-incompetency-of-pngs-electoral-commission-must-stop/" aria-label="Read more about Post-Courier: The incompetency of PNG’s Electoral Commission must stop">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
By Marjorie Finkeo and Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Six suspects, including a woman, have been charged in connection with more than K1 million in cash seized at Komo airport in Papua New Guinea’s Hela province last weekend. The six were charged on Monday with two counts each of money laundering and being in possession ... <a title="Six charged with money laundering over K1.3 million in suitcase as PNG votes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/six-charged-with-money-laundering-over-k1-3-million-in-suitcase-as-png-votes/" aria-label="Read more about Six charged with money laundering over K1.3 million in suitcase as PNG votes">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape has confirmed reports his eldest son is one of two men arrested in relation to a suitcase found with US$440,000 at a domestic airport in the Highlands province of Hela last weekend. The arrests occurred after police became suspicious of the suitcase amid heightened security in ... <a title="PNG leader Marape confirms son arrested over money in suitcase" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/png-leader-marape-confirms-son-arrested-over-money-in-suitcase/" aria-label="Read more about PNG leader Marape confirms son arrested over money in suitcase">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
By Frank Rai in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea went to the polls yesterday to begin electing the 11th national Parliament only to find out that there were names missing on the common roll while some polling stations were short of ballot papers around the country. The distribution of ballot papers and the common roll ... <a title="Papua New Guinea goes to the polls amid controversy over missing names" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/papua-new-guinea-goes-to-the-polls-amid-controversy-over-missing-names/" aria-label="Read more about Papua New Guinea goes to the polls amid controversy over missing names">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2022
Inside PNG News Forty-Two Papua New Guinea Defence Force staff have arrived in Kavieng for the national general election operations. New Ireland Provincial Police Commander Chief Inspector Felix Nebanat said this brought the total number of joint security forces up to 400 in the province. Papua New Guinea’s general election began yesterday. ” I am ... <a title="PNG Defence Force arrive in New Ireland for election duties" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/05/png-defence-force-arrive-in-new-ireland-for-election-duties/" aria-label="Read more about PNG Defence Force arrive in New Ireland for election duties">Read more</a>
