Bougainville

Journalist Patrick Winn, writing for The World website, reported that Toroama wants the support of Washington and has offered Bougainville as a site for an American military base.

The mine in the autonomous Papua New Guinea region was the catalyst for the nearly ten-year long civil war through the 1990s.

Ezekiel Masatt said a joint understanding has been reached with Papua New Guinea to broaden the role of the recently appointed independent moderator.

This comes after the release of draft results of an investigation into the damage has confirmed what many people have been saying for years.

President Ishmael Toroama said the plans represent Bougainville's continued progress towards realising the dreams of past generations.

This week, Bougainville is to get a new bank, one that is geared to providing banking services directly to women. Audio

The lawsuit seeks compensation for alleged historic mismanagement of a mine that sparked a civil war.

These are the Bougainville Government Land Bill, Customary Land Bill, Land Registers Bill 2024, and the Planning and Development Bill.

For Bougainville, whose cocoa trees were old, tired and ignored by the end of the civil war, what was needed was the lift provided by aid donors through the Bougainville Partnership.

This follows a memorandum of agreement between the government of the autonomous Papua New Guinea region and the National Airports Corporation.

Sir Jerry has been holding meetings with both the leaders of PNG and Bougainville, and other officials, in Port Moresby this week.

Former New Zealand Governor General Sir Jerry Mateparae is in Port Moresby this week to meet with the Papua New Guinea Prime Minister and the Bougainville President.

The event, first held in 2019, aims to showcase Bougainville's cocoa production and to foster an interest in chocolate products.

Special autonomy as a form of decentralisation is a popular idea in certain provinces of PNG. But in Bougainville and East New Britain the term has very different meanings, writes James Stiefvater.

The Detail - Sir Don McKinnon on New Zealand's key role in bringing peace to Bougainville over the past 30 years.