Bougainville

Candidates intending to run in this year's election on Bougainville have been told not to start campaigning yet.

An aspiring political candidate in the Bougainville elections, set to begin in early August, says the John Momis regime has wasted the past 10 years it has held power.

A community leader in central Bougainville is hoping the Covid-19 restrictions can be eased to allow people to sell vegetables on the roadside.

The Bougainville Government says it will be late next year before a document on the referendum goes before the Papua New Guinea parliament.

A church on Bougainville and landowners have called on investors in Rio Tinto to force the company to address a legacy of environmental destruction they say was created by the Panguna mine.

Bougainville is to start lifting restrictions imposed to try and stop Covid-19 from entering the autonomous region in PNG.

The Bougainville Government has reassured people that rumours of a first confirmed case of Covid-19 in the PNG autonomous region are wrong.

More than 300 families in the Bana area of South Bougainville are in need of food aid after flooding.

New Zealand and Australia have sent four vehicles to Bougainville to help support its efforts to keep Covid-19 out of the region.

The electoral process in Bougainville is to begin on the 17th June - two months later than initially intended.

An Air Niugini flight into Bougainville over the weekend was redirected soon after landing in Buka.

The President of Bougainville has confirmed any substantial decision from the referendum consultations will be held over until a new government is in place.

The controller of the Bougainville State of Emergency, with medical personnel and the Electoral Commissioner, will set the region's election date.

The Autonomous Bougainville Government in PNG says it's concerned at the slow turnaround of Covid-19 testing.

Bougainville's government is planning to delay the regional election by up to two months because of the Covid-19 lockdown.

A women's leader from Arawa, in Bougainville, says the re-opening of the controversial Panguna mine is crucial to the success of the region's independence push from PNG.

Restrictions on access through Papua New Guinea's borders have tightened under the extended State of Emergency.

Parliamentarians in Bougainville have agreed to extend a State of Emergency imposed last month to help combat Covid-19.

The Bougainville Covid -19 health response team is waiting for a flight from Port Moresby to take samples from two possibly infected people to Port Moresby for testing.

The parliament in Bougainville is to meet this afternoon to consider whether to extend a state of emergency put in place to keep the region free of Covid-19.