Bougainville

The women's MP for North Bougainville says the people on the Carteret Atolls and Nissan, are frustrated at the continued delays to improving shipping services.

Amid the growing concerns at the spread of Covid-19 in Papua New Guinea, Bougainville is now tightening the rules.

Bougainville MP, Theonila Roka Matbob, has won a human rights award for taking on mining multi-national Rio Tinto.

Bougainvilleans are being asked where the capital should be located.

The Bougainville Government believes it can earn millions of dollars from the gold currently being mined and shipped out illegally.

The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, James Marape, says nothing can be pre-determined on the question of independence for Bougainville.

A former Speaker of the Bougainville parliament says consultations across Papua New Guinea on the independence issue are out of order.

Bougainville is today marking the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Bougainville Peace Agreement.

The possible independence of Bougainville is the greatest challenge Papua New Guinea faces, the PNG Prime Minister James Marape says.

Foreign aid should be used to help Bougainville achieve sovereign rule, the autonomous region's president Ishmael Toroama says.

The President of Bougainville says the region's political aspirations require a holistic approach as it strives to achieve independence.

The Bougainville Government says it's not worried by statements from Papua New Guinea's Governor General, Sir Bob Dadae, aiming to discourage the push for independence.

The Bougainville Disaster Office says after several days of searching there has been no sign of the six people who went missing while on a trip to Nissan Island.

The landowning group at the site of the Panguna Mine in Bougainville is opposing the plan announced this week to assess the damage caused by the mine.

A man who swam ashore after a boat he and six other were travelling in on Saturday capsized in Bougainville waters, has told officials the seas were very rough.

A boat, with seven people onboard, has disappeared on a trip to the Bougainville's outer islands.

A Bougainville cabinet minister and six other people have been reported missing at sea after departing Buka on Saturday.

Bougainville communities secure commitment from Rio Tinto to assess environmental and human rights impacts of former mine

New figures from PNG's Covid-19 controllers, show just 627 Bougainvilleans have been vaccinated out of a population of about 300,000.