Pope Francis arrives in Papua New Guinea, country two of 12-day trip
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Reuters Pope Francis arrived in Papua New Guinea on Friday evening from Indonesia, where the 87-year-old leader of the global Catholic Church will continue an ambitious 12-day tour across South-East Asia and Oceania. The Garuda Indonesia plane carrying the Pope and his entourage arrived in Port Moresby, the Papua New […]
Quiet streets, fuel lines follow declaration of emergency in Papua New Guinea
Sydney, Australia Reuters Soldiers and police patrolled the quiet streets of Port Moresby on Friday morning as people joined long lines for fuel a day after Papua New Guinea declared a state of emergency in response to a massive outbreak of rioting and violence. Prime Minister James Marape declared a 14-day state of emergency late […]
COVID “tornado” hitting Papua New Guinea’s fragile hospitals, say health workers
Sydney, Australia Reuters Rapidly increasing COVID-19 infections in hospitals in the Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea were hitting its fragile health system “like a tornado”, with services shutting as staff fall ill, health workers said on Wednesday. Australia said it would send 8,000 vaccines to its northern neighbour Papua New Guinea, responding to […]
Papua New Guinea faces coronavirus crisis as infections rise
Sydney, Australia Reuters The Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea is facing a fresh wave of COVID-19 infections around the capital Port Moresby, which neighbouring Australia and aid groups fear could overwhelm the country’s small and overstretched health system. The Pacific Friends of Global Health warned if health services are overwhelmed by COVID-19 the […]
Papua New Guinea farewells “grand chief” at state funeral
Sydney, Australia Reuters Papua New Guineans gathered in their thousands to pay respect to their “grand chief” at a state funeral on Friday for Michael Somare, the former Prime Minister who led the Pacific archipelago to independence. Somare died on 26th February, aged 84, just weeks after he was diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer. He […]