An autonomous region of Papua New Guinea has voted overwhelmingly to leave the country and form a new independent nation, authorities announced on Wednesday. More than 181,000 people voted in the ...

People line up to vote in a referendum on Bougainville's independence from Papua New Guinea, in the region's interim capital of Buka Town, on Nov. 25.

"To demand that Bougainville should meet some economic threshold or be economically independent before political independence ...

In his final parliamentary address as President, Ishmael Toroama declared that Bougainville stands "on the threshold of a new ...

Bougainville's autonomous government wants a commitment from PNG that it will table the results of an independence referendum ...

Tensions are running high in Papua New Guinea, with a member of the independence movement in the Indonesian province of Papua barred from attending a summit. The Melanesian summit in PNG involves ...

Bougainville voted for independence under a 2001 peace process in a referendum five years ago but PNG's parliament is yet to endorse it. A New Zealand mediator was recently appointed on the matter.

After seeing overwhelming support for Bougainville independence in a 2019 referendum, there is some frustration over perceived foot-dragging by PNG.

Independence would have to first be approved by Papua New Guinea’s parliament, and this is still yet to be granted. Kemish told The Sun "I think there’s an underlying concern that if they let ...

An autonomous region of Papua New Guinea has voted overwhelmingly to leave the country and form a new independent nation, authorities announced on Wednesday. More than 181,000 people voted in the ...

But Papua New Guinea ignored that push, and over the ensuing decades, tensions simmered and then exploded. Violence shut down the mine in 1989 and a nine-year war claimed the lives of 20,000 people.