Papua New Guinea security personnel have been authorized to use “lethal force” to quell violence between illegal miners and ...

Landowners have warned they fear further deaths and violence at the Porgera gold mine if the Papua New Guinea government does ...

Tribal warfare near Barrick Gold‘s (TSX: ABX: NYSE: GOLD) Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea has escalated into a violent ...

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(): Violence among illegal miners in Papua New Guinea has left between 20 and 50 people dead, a United Nations official said on Monday. The fighting started days ago and is continuing in the Porgera ...

Australians walking a sacred wartime path in Papua New Guinea have been "caught in the middle" of a bitter dispute between ...

Shootouts between hundreds of tribal warriors have left at least 30 people dead in Papua New Guinea's highlands, police said Monday, as security forces were given emergency powers to quell the ...

Papua New Guinea has granted police emergency powers to quell spiralling violence in the Porgera Valley, blaming "illegal settlers" squatting near one of the country's largest gold mines.

At least 30 people have died in fierce inter-tribal fighting in Papua New Guinea’s gold-rich Porgera Valley, forcing a mass ...

Pope Francis on Saturday called for better treatment of workers in Papua New Guinea, a nation of some 600 islands in the ...

In PNG about 25 percent of its 11 million people live below the poverty line and slightly more than 10 percent have ...