(1 November 2023) "Press review: Mining in the South Pacific"
Vol. 15, No. 5, September - October 2023, 67 pages, available here
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Vortragshinweis - Veranstaltungen:
"50 Jahre Deutsch-Pazifische Gesellschaft e.V."
DPG-Tagung Berlin, Samstag 27. April 2024
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News
First PNG
woman for peacekeeping duties of the United Nations in Sudan
National, 21 Nov 2023, link
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Free West
Papua campaigners convene for inaugural meeting in Jayapura
RNZ, 21 Nov 2023, link
The Congress has been held
according to the demand of the people of West Papua,
following a
People’s Forum held on 6-7 November.
Photo: ULMWP/RNZ
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PNG: Concerns for violence grow in Enga as four dead in Lagaip by-election
Radio New Zealand, 17 Nov 2023, link
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China announces direct flights to Port Moresby
National, 16 Nov 2023, link
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An everyday experience in rural Papua New Guinea:Teacher dies after eight hour trek to seek medical help
Post-Courier, 16 Nov 2023, link
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15 November 2023: Post-Cotonou: New Samoa Agreement of the EU with
47 African, 16 Caribbean
and 15 Pacific countries, and
the Republic of Maldives
Over 1.5 billion people are covered by the agreement, link
graphic: EU
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Australian
PM announces historic climate refugee deal with Pacific Island Tuvalu
Sydney Morning Herald, 10 Nov 2023, link, ABC news, link
In return, Australia will have effective veto power over Tuvalu's foreign
security arrangements. Australia-Tuvalu treaty link, review link, link
Tuvalu Foto: Torsten Blackwood / AFP / SPIEGEL Online 10.11.2023, link
At the UN's 2021 climate change conference, Tuvalu's Foreign Minister
Simon Kofe
delivered his speech from the seashore to stress the threat
his country faces.(Reuters)
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TV tip: Total Control (2019)
Australian television political drama
Season 1 on the German TV channel ARTE in Nov 2023
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First ore for Frieda set for 2035
Post-Courier, 2 Nov 2023, link
National, 1 Nov 2023, link
Chiefs
from 28 haus tambarans – "spirit houses" – representing 78,000
people along
Papua New Guinea's remote Sepik river declared in June 2020: "The
river is the life of
the Sepik and therefore it must be protected at all cost.
It is our innate role to guard the
river from exploitation and destruction by
outsiders. Our future is in peril from this
proposed mine and, therefore, we
have gathered together as guardians of the river
to stand firm as one." Business & Human Rights Resource Centre 17 June 2020, link
Guangdong Rising Holding Group
photo: Post-Courier
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PNG owes
the UN over US$700,000 for membership
Post-Courier, 31 Oct 2023, link
 photo: Post-Courier |
PNG: Bougainville independence is top of
mind for Semoso Semoso is first female MP for Bougainville Post-Courier, 30 Oct 2023, link |
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Israel-Gaza
conflict: Fiji's former leader and humanitarian groups
criticise Pacific vote against UN resolution, RNZ 30 Oct 2023, link
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International undersea internet cables for Pacific Island countries
Photo: Dr Amanda H A Watson and CartoGIS ANU/RNZ 30 Oct 2023, link
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APEC
faces up to the China challenge
RNZ, 29 Oct 2023, link
China's rise brings a risk to the established liberal order as Beijing fosters
an alternative way of doing things.
Photo: Charlie Jin via Pexels/RNZ
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Chaos in Madang, National, 27 Oct 2023, link, link
photo: National
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PNG: Euro
investment nearly K3bil 800-plus jobs
National, 24 Oct 2023, link
EU: K393mil commitment for trade and agriculture
National, 24 Oct 2023, link
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Fall of a
Fijian trafficker exposes previous government’s blind eye to meth
A joint investigation by OCCRP, the Fiji Times, the New Zealand Herald,
and Radio New Zealand; RNZ, 20 Oct 2023, link
Pacific meth cocaine route map.
Photo: Edin Pasovic /
Organized
Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)
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President
Xi commits to safeguard PNG
Post-Courier, 25 Oct 2023, link
China to help Papua New Guinea
National, 19 Oct 2023, link
photo: PM´s media/The National
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Violence against women and girls 'increasing' in Papua New Guinea, MP
says
RNZ, 12 Oct 2023, link
Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
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Genocide a real threat in tribal fighting in Papua New Guinea
Editorial, Post-Courier, 11 Oct 2023, link
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A new report has shone a light on "significant human rights issues" in West Papua.
The US government's findings outlines unlawful or arbitrary killings by government
security forces, the use of torture by police and serious restrictions on
free expression and media throughout 2022, link
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Frieda: Miner in PNG told it must talk with community, environmentalists
RNZ 10 Oct 2023, link
Frieda River heading north to join the Sepik River.
Photo: Facebook - SEPIK Capital, PNG -
Wewak Urban Local Level Government
Frieda: Authority prioritises river issues
National 4 Oct 2023, link
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New K692 million Nadzab Tomodachi
International Airport in Lae:
photo: The National, 5 Oct 2023, link
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Papua New Guinea authorities must ask 'where is the money' following
conviction of disgraced lawyer, anti-corruption watchdog says
RNZ, 11 Oct 2023, link
Convicted Papua New Guinea lawyer Paul Paraka has been jailed for 20 years for
the misuse of US$44.2 million (162 m Kina) of state money between 2007 and 2011
Post-Courier, 5 Oct 2023, link
Chinese ‘Miracle Water’ grifters infiltrated UN and bribed politicians
RNZ 5 Oct 2023, link
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US President Biden is set to establish diplomatic ties with the Cook Islands and Niue
Biden
makes new pledges to Pacific island leaders
RNZ 26 Sept 2023, link
US
President Joe Biden in a group photo with other leaders at the Pacific Islands
Forum as part
of the US-Pacific Islands Forum Summit at the White House on
September 25, 2023 in Washington;
photo: Bloomberg/The
Japan Times 26 Sept 2023, large photo: Pacific Islands Forum/Facebook here
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Bougainville challenges PNG over secret vote plan
RNZ 22 Sept 2023, link
File photo:
ABG President Ishmael Toroama, right, and PNG Prime Minister James Marape at
the last
JSB Meeting in Port Moresby in July this year. Photo:
Autonomous Bougainville Government/RNZ
Happy independence day to Papua New Guinea for 16 September!
The country celebrates the 48th anniversary as sovereign nation
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TEN YEARS WITHOUT A CROP, Sept 2023, link
Summary: Campaigners
call on PNG govt to act on destructive logging
RNZ 15 Sept 2023, link
Logging piles on the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea.
Photo: Global Witness/RNZ
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No Porgera mine impact audit for 30 years by Environment Protection Authority!National 14 Sept 2023, link
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PNG’s Marape makes foreign policy gaffes over Israel, West PapuaAnalysis by David Robie; Asia Pacific Report, 14 Sept 2023, link
Palestine
furious at PNG Prime Minister opening embassy in Jerusalem
RNZ 8 Sept 2023, link
PM James Marape says Israel to fund PNG embassy in the contested city of Jerusalem
RNZ 6 September 2023, link, National 7 Sept 2023, link
Papua New Guinea dedicates Embassy in
Jerusalem. James Marape, left, and
Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on 6
September 2023. Photo: National
The rise of Christian fundamentalism and the link to Israel
Article by Ron May (No. 11): 2014, pp. 175-185, link
Mum murdered after ‘prayer warrior’ said she was evil
Post-Courier, 5 Sept 2023, link
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PM clarifies position on West Papua
National, 11 Sept 2023, link, link
Moratorium placed on deep sea mining?
National, 29 Aug 2023, link
West Papua: Melanesian
leadership failure to stand by ULMWP is a 'travesty'
RNZ 28 Aug 2023, link
The five leaders in Port Vila for the MSG Summit
Photo: MSG Secretariat
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Fiji, Kiribati urged to stop phosphate exploration process on Banaba
island
RNZ 26 Aug 2023, link
Banabans on Rabi island protesting against relocation due to phosphate mining.
Photo: International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination (ICAAD)
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Brutale Stammesfehde
in Papua-Neuguinea – Polizei erhält Schießbefehl
SPIEGEL online, 29. Aug. 2023, link
PNG
killings: what’s behind the outbreak in tribal fighting?
The Guardian, 29 Aug 2023, link
Armoured vehicles
deployed to Enga
Post-Courier, 29 August 2023, link
Photo: Post-Courier
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VIDEO: Tribal fighting kills up to 70 people in PNG's highlands
ABC News, 23 Aug 2023, link
 Photo: National |
"Jungle justice" in Enga Prov., PNG
Hired gunmen shot dead National 22 Aug 2023, link Pay rate for hired guns Post-Courier, 22 Aug 2023, link Police go after Enga ‘puppet masters’ ibid., link |
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Germany
opens embassy in Fiji’s capital city Suva
The Fiji Times, 20 August 2023, link
Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka with Germany embassy officials (German ambassador to Fiji
Dr Andreas Prothmann, right, and special envoy for Pacific Island States Beate Grzeski, left)
at the opening of the new embassy in Suva. Picture: JONA KONATACI/The Fiji Times
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Literatur-Tipp 2023 |
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European Union, PNG relations deepenPost-Courier, 18 Aug 2023, link
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Massive deforestation in West Papua – Greenpeace reveals loss of 641,400
ha
Asia Pacific Report, 18 Aug 2023, link
Land clearing in West Papua region's Grime Nawa Valley, Jayapura
Regency,
which is planned to be planted with oil palm. Image: JubiTV
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'Left
behind by govt': Indigenous landowners oppose mining in Namosi, Fiji
RNZ 9 August 2023, link
From December 2011: The people
of Namosi staged a quiet protest against the proposed mining
project on
their land at Waisoi. Reps from Namosi Joint Venture (NJV) turned up for
a meeting
with the villagers in the area where the landowners are
worried about the potential environmental
effects and the loss of
mataqali (landowning unit) lands.
Photo: Facebook.com / Ricardo Morris
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New documentary, human rights report allege Indonesian atrocities in West
Papua
Asia Pacific Report, 5 August 2023, link
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No to seabed mining, says Governor Juffa
National, 7 August 2023, link
Nautilus to return to Papua New Guinea
Post-Courier, 2 August 2023, link
Photo: The Pacific Blue Line, Media Release, 7 Dec 2022, link
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Solomon Star promised to ‘promote China’ in return for funding
By Pacific Media Watch, Asia Pacific Report, 31 July 2023, link
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Mining company waits for regulations to kick in to start work
RNZ 1 August 2023, link
International talks end without go-ahead for deep-sea mining
Last-minute agreement reached at ISA meeting in
Jamaica to discuss
moratorium at next year’s talks. The Guardian, 29 July 2023, link
A deep-sea mining robot during a test operation in the Pacific Ocean.
Photograph: GSR/Reuters
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Potential AUKUS deal could come between NZ and Pacific, expert says
Radio New Zealand on 29 July 2023, link
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French´s President Emmanuel Macron visits Papua New Guinea
National 31 July 2023, link
Macron announces initiative to preserve primary forests of PNG
rfi international, 28 July 2023, link
Macron denounces ‘new imperialism’ in Pacific on historic visit
to Vanuatu
The Guardian, 27 July 2023, link
Photo: PNG National
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Opening of a French Embassy in SamoaJoint statement by France and Samoa, 26 July 2023, link
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The battle for influence in the Pacific
between the world's superpowers
By Finau Fonua, Radio New Zealand Pacific, 21
July 2023, link
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Deep-sea mining threatens tuna fisheries - study
RNZ 13 July 2023, link
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Solomons' PM signs new deals with China on Beijing trip
RNZ, 13 July 2023, link
Manasseh Sogavare has met with president of China, Xi Jinping.
Photo: Facebook.com/SIBC
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Sustainable Development Report June 2023, link
The 5 countries showing reversal in progress (p. 24):
Myanmar, Venezuela, Papua New Guinea, Yemen, Lebanon
PNG rank 148 out of 166 countries
PNG remains
committed to SDGs
Post-Courier 19 July 2023, link
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Historic Salamaua losing battle against rising sea
Post-Courier 19 July 2023, link
Bougainville: Nuguria
(Fead) Island is sinking
Post-Courier, 11 June 2023, link
Photos: Post-Courier
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Marape: PNG no right to comment on abuses
in West Papua
ASEAN summit In Jakarta, RNZ 8 Sept 2023, link
Jokowi
PNG visit strengthens ties but sidelines West Papua concerns
RNZ, 10 July 2023, link
Indonesian President Joko Widodo met with
his PNG counterpart James Marape
in Port Moresby, 6 July 2023, RNZ link, National link
Indonesia's President Joko
Widodo (L) is greeted by Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape
at
APEC Haus ahead of bilateral meetings in Port Moresby.
Photo: ANDREW KUTAN/AFP
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Sir
Julius pushes resource ownership and autonomy
Post-Courier, 23 June 2023, link
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Tough new PNG police powers won't work - Transparency PNG
RNZ 5 July 2023, link
`Domestic terrorism´ in Papua New Guinea?
Post-Courier, 23 June 2023, link, link
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Bougainville
minister's anger over change of vote on independence
RNZ 23 June 2023, link
Photo: The Bougainvillean
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Academic
says PNG politicians naïve over US defence deals
RNZ 22 June 2023, link
US jets’
stop unscheduled, The National 22 June 2023, link
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Tribal
warfare in PNG results in 10 deaths, many more wounded
RNZ/National 22 June 2023, link, link
Post-Courier Frontpage 14 June 2023, link
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Bougainville
assuming powers, functions
National 14 June 2023, link
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'Mental
torture': Protesters want refugee freed from detention
RNZ 13 June 2023, link
Around 50 people held a protest
at Brisbane's immigration detention centre, BITA
(Brisbane Immigration
Transit Accommodation) 11 June 2023.
Photo: Ian Rintoul
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Bougainville's destructive goldmine could also be its $90 billion key to
independence
Report and Video by ABC News, 5 June 2023, link
Panguna was operated by BCL, which was majority owned by global mining group
Rio Tinto, between 1972 and 1989, photo: ABC News, Tim Swanston
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Bank of
China launched in PNG
Post-Courier 2 June 2023, link; Xinhua link
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US-Pacific
Islands Forum meeting in Port Moresby 22 May 2023
photo: AFP 2023 ADEK BERRY (Sputnik India); large photo here
US signs security pact with Papua New
Guinea amid competition with China
Port Moresby, 22 May 2023, National link, RNZ link, The Guardian link, ABC link
photo: The National 23 May 2023
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Concerns in Papua New Guinea over framing of US security pact
RNZ 16 May 2023, link
The opening page of a leaked
draft of the security agreement being brokered between the United States
and Papua New Guinea as of their May 1-6 round of negotiations.
Photo: RNZ Pacific / Supplied
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King Charles III's coronation - PNG foreign minister stands asideRNZ link, link & link & Inside PNG
UPNG students protest over offensive comments.
Photo: RNZ Pacific 12 May 2023 / Scott Waide
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U.S. opens embassy in Tonga in new pushback against China in the Pacific
By Reuters, NBC News, May 10, 2023, link
Nuku'alofa, on May 9, 2023. Photo: U.S. Embassy Nuku'alofa
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‘Drug
smugglers to be shot’ in PNGs Western Province
Post-Courier, 3 May 2023, link
Work at PNG´s Porgera mine set to restart after deal reached
RNZ 3 May 2023, link
Aerial view of the Porgera gold mine.
Photo: RNZ/Zijin Mining
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Porgera killing fields (PC)
Deaths in tribal fighting in PNG's
Porgera district
"guerilla warfare continues"; photo: National 28 April 2023, link & link (PC)
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Reports say Joe Biden will visit PNG in
May
RNZ 28 April 2023, link
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New Zealand pilot captured by Papuan
fighters says he is
‘alive and well’ in new hostage video; CNN 26 April 2023, link & link
New Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens sits among a group of separatist fighters on March 6, 2023;
photo: West Papua National Liberation Army/Reuters/FILE
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Landowners to pursue Rio Tinto case
Post-Courier, 26 April 2023, link
First step to Panguna Mine Legacy Impact
Assessment
Post-Courier, 25 April 2023, link
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Rampage in Kimbe, West New Britain, PNG following the
shooting to death of 16 inmates; National 26 April 2023, link & link
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Papua-Neuguinea:
Giftige Vögel entdeckt -
Gefährliche Schönheiten
taz 24.04.2023, link
Der Ockerpitohui; Foto: Michael Moore/Okapia/picture alliance
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New photos of PNG notes, here
© Roland Seib
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PNG a transit point for drugs into
Australia
Post-Courier, 24 March 2023, link
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Cabinet agrees for Germany to establish
embassy in Fiji
The Fiji Times 16 March 2023, link
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PNG: Proposal for six new
portfolios to the 32-member Cabinet questioned
National 16 March 2023, link
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Chinese PanAust advancing
Frieda project in PNG´s Sepik province
The project is said to be
one of the largest undeveloped copper and gold
deposits in the world
Frieda River heading north to join the Sepik River. Photo: Facebook -
SEPIK Capital, PNG -
Wewak Urban Local Level Government
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AUKUS submarine deal: Is conflict with China getting closer?
Comment by Frank Gardner BBC, RNZ 15 March 2023, link
US President Joe Biden (centre)
speaks alongside UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (right) and
Australian
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a press conference during the AUKUS
summit on 13 March, 2023, in San Diego California.
Photo: RNZ / AFP / Jim Watson
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Papua New Guinea and the drugs:
Police uncover 117 kg of meth, Post-Courier 3 March 2023, link
Cops using meth, ibid. 2 March 2023, link
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New
Zealand govt intervened to stop operation to save pilot
RNZ 24 Feb 2023, link
Photo: RNZ/West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB)
New
Zealand pilot taken hostage in West Papua
RNZ 9 Feb 2023, link
Highlands-based Defense Region Command of the West Papua National Liberation Army,
or TPNPB. Photo: TPNPB (RNZ)
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New report by the
Australian Climate Council: This report finds that between 2016 and 2021, just 12 fossil fuel corporations in Australia emitted carbon pollution equivalent to more than 50% of total Pacific Islands emissions over the same period. February 2023, link |
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Australia's foreign affairs minister warns of
potential 'catastrophic conflict' in Indo-Pacific
RNZ 3 Feb 2023, link
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US
re-opens embassy in Solomon Islands
RNZ, 2 Feb 2023, link
Solomon Islands Foreign Minister Colin Beck (centre left) with US
officials at the Embassy re-opening. Photo: Supplied/US Embassy
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Eleven people have been killed in two days of brutal fighting between
tribes in the Kompiam area of Enga Province in Papua New Guinea
RNZ/Post-Courier 26 January 2023 (photo), link, link, link
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Governor Lukas
Enembe; |
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New
article by Alexandra Sakaki:
Attention to
the Periphery? Germany and the Pacific Island States
Lettre du Centre Asie n°102, 21 December 2022, link
The Frigate Bayern during the 2021 Indo-Pacific Deployment. Credits: US Navy/Haydn N. Smith
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Sitiveni
Rabuka is Fiji's new prime minister
RNZ 24 Dec 2022, link
New
chapter for Fiji after the 2022 general election:
The end
of 16 years of dominance of Voreqe Bainimarama?
Sitiveni Rabuka to
lead coalition, Radio New Zealand 21 Dec 2022, link
Done deal! Coalition agreement
signed - Second from left Sodelpa chief negotiator Anare Jale,
People's Alliance leader Sitiveni Rabuka, National Federation Party leader Biman
Prasad and
Ro Teimumu Kepa former Sodelpa Leader, 20 December 2022; Photo: National Federation Party/RNZ
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Ozeanien
- Brennglas globaler Herausforderungen
Ozeanien Dialog, Hamburg, Dez. 2022, 2,37 Min., link
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Der
Tiefseebergbau bedroht den Ozean
Berlin und Paris
vereinbaren deshalb eine Pause
Gastkommentar von Steffi Lemke und Hervé Berville
Handelsblatt vom 16.12.2022,
link
photo: Handelsblatt
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A new investigative report from the Organized Crime and Corruption
Reporting Project (OCCRP) has exposed details of
a Chinese
Communist Party and Triad push for political influence in Palau
12 December 2022, link
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Independent environmental and human rights
legacy impact assessment
of Rio Tinto's former Panguna mine in Bougainville
is due to begin;
RNZ 6 Dec 2022, link
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Happy
West Papua Day –
and the brutal truth about where we are now
COMMENTARY: By Yamin
Kogoya, Asia Pacific Report, 1 Dec 2022, link
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Churches
call for Pacific-wide boycott over West Papua
The
Pacific Conference of Churches is calling for a boycott of all Indonesian
products and programmes, until Jakarta allows a
visit to West Papua
by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
RNZ 1 Dec 2022, link
West Papua Liberation Army members outside the torched base camp of
Indonesian logging company PT Bangun Katu Irian; Photo: RNZ
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Transparency International PNG
Election Observation Report 2022 30 Nov 2022, link former election reports link |
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Solwara I in Papua New Guinea is back!
The Solwara 1 Project and related subsidiaries have now been acquired by DSMF
(Deep Sea Mining Finance Limited, Isle of Man) in the course of 2019. DSMF
now has full ownership of interests and rights to Solwara 1, key assets, intellectual
property, and subsidiaries and is well-positioned to progress Solwara 1 into
commercial production. DSMF has already secured the exploration rights to 19
prospective SMS (Seafloor Massive Sulphide) systems in PNG and 25
systems in the Kingdom of Tonga. See DSMF homepage: https://dsmf.im/
New deep sea miner wants to push ahead with Solwara I project
Community leaders
across Papua New Guinea call for
seabed mining to be banned and all
licenses cancelled;
Alliance of Solwara
Warriors, Media Release 15 Nov 2022, here
Youth from Duke of
York Island, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea protesting
against deep sea
mining. Credit: West Coast Development Foundation
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Human
rights complaint filed over Newcrest’s plans to
dump waste in Papua New Guinea
Today, three organisations filed a complaint against two
Australian-based
mining companies, Newcrest Mining and Harmony Gold
Mining, over the
proposal to dump toxic mining waste into the Huon Gulf
in PNG’s Morobe
Province. The companies are seeking to have a Special
Mining Lease
approved for the project, the Wafi Golpu Mine, by 2
December 2022 -
less than a month from now. Jubilee Australia 9 Nov 2022, link & link
photo: Mineral Policy Institute
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New Research by ACT NOW! & JUBILEE Australia, Oct 2022, link
The New Timber Barons:
The Companies Logging the Rainforests of Papua New Guinea
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Joint
Statement on Behalf of 50 countries in the UN General Assembly
Third Committee on the Human Rights Situation in Xinjiang, China
United States Mission to the United Nations
31 Oct 2022, link
Massacre with 24 dead on Kiriwina Island north-east of
Port Moresby in the remote Trobriand archipelago
RNZ 28 Oct, link, & 27 Oct 2022, link
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The New Coming World Order?
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, and the other
newly elected members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 20th CPC Central
Committee Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang and Li Xi, meet the press at
the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 23, 2022. (Xinhua/Shen Hong)
large photo here
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Fiji is nowhere near a genuine democracy says Biman Prasad
Radio New Zealand 14 Oct 2022, link
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US-Pacific Island Country Summit, 29 Sept 2022, link, link
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Human
rights data for Pacific nations now available
National 29 Sept 2022, link, link
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Fish dying in the Middle Fly river in PNG
Post-Courier 23 Sept 2022, link
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PNG and Australian NGOs call on government to stop Wafi-Golpu mine project
National 20 Sept 2022, link
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Development in Port Moresby/PNG:
Launch of K130m Paga Hill Paradise
Post-Courier 9 Sept 2022, link, National (photo), link
see also PNGi investigates, 25 Oct 2022, link
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UN Human
Rights Office issues assessment of
human rights concerns in Xinjiang, China
31 August 2022, link
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Opening of the 11th Parliament of Papua New Guinea, 30 Aug 2022: Governor-General Grand Chief Sir Bob Dadae paid tribute to Sir Julius Chan, MP as the only statesman standing out of all the pre-independence leaders (photo: Julius Chan 2021, US Embassy POM) |
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Serious Human Rights Violations in Papua New Guinea
Survivor in Enga’s violent sorcery accusation-related violence (SARV)
attack shares horrifying experience
See also: WILDFIRE - help stop sorcery accusation related violence
A film by independent film-maker and academic Paul Wolffram, NZ; link & link
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Prime Minister names 33-member cabinet
National, 24 August 2022, link
Winners and losers of seats in parliament
National, 15 August 2022, link
James Marape returns as PNGs Prime Minister
Post-Courier, 10 August 2022, link
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New photo galleries from New Zealand (1998),
Jordan (1980), Guinea-Bissau (1983) and Thailand (1986)
available here, here & here
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Frieda River Mine
campaigners' human rights complaint success with OECD
cf. Jubilee Australia July 2022, link
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"War Zone PNG", PNG National 26 July 2022, link
(photo: PNG Defence Force)
Commonwealth
observers advise “urgent review”
as many voters left out of Papua New Guinea
polling;
Interim statement Port Moresby 25 July 2022, link
UN deeply
concerned about 'heinous violence' during PNG election
RNZ 22 July 2022, link
said this election was worse than the last two elections in 2012 and 2017.
National 21 July 2022, link
Porgera in chaos: A brutal massacre in Porgera town yesterday afternoon in
which 18 innocent people were killed has rocked Enga province and shocked the
nation. The 18 deaths brings to 70 the number of people killed in Porgera in the
past four months; link & link
photo: National 21 July 2022
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"WOMEN were raped, government and |
photo: National 18 July 2022
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BLUE PERIL - A visual investigation of
Deep Sea Mining in the Pacific
Launched at the United Nations Ocean Conference 2022
30 June 2022, link
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PNG National, 28 June 2022, link
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Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Global Liveability Index 2022 released:
Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby is 6th least liveable city in the world
Rank 167 of 172 cities (2021: 138 of 140 cities), London 23 June 2022, link
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50th session of the UN Human Rights Council, Geneva, 14 June 2022
On 14 June 2022, the Netherlands delivered a statement on behalf of 47 countries,
including the Pacific states of the Marshall Islands and Palau, in the UN Human Rights
Council on the human rights situation in China, particularly in Xinjiang and calling for
the release of the report on Xinjiang by the High Commissioner for Human Rights
(OHCHR)(link), Cuba delivered a joint statement on behalf of 69 states, including
the Pacific states of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Kiribati,
opposing politicization, double standards and interference in China´s internal affairs
(link). Almost the same procedure as at the 47th session of the UN Human Rights
Council in Geneva in June 2021 (see below).
States of the world and the human rights situation in China 2022
Source: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Map of the Month June 2022, link, large map here
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Papua New Guinea´s Sir Peter Barter, 82 from Madang dies after long illness
22 June 2022, link, link and link
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Death of Roger Moody, 74, mining activist, London 20 June 2022
As Richard Solly in the London Mining Network Newsletter writes:
"We are also sad to announce the sudden and unexpected death
(though this time peacefully, and at home) of Roger Moody,
a long-time researcher and campaigner on the mining industry
and the rights of Indigenous Peoples, one of the founders of London
Mining Network and a very dear friend to a number of us, including
me. We pay tribute to these dedicated individuals by re-dedicating
ourselves to the struggle for justice and the defence of the Earth."
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New discussion paper of The Australia Institute proves:
“The owners of Australia’s industry are not
Australian. Australians own a tiny
fraction of the Australian corporate sector
and seem to be deluded as to the extent
of foreign ownership”; a “classic colonial culture industry” (Conclusions p. 36).
“BHP is described as the “big Australian” but, at 94
per cent foreign owned and 82
per cent American owned, it would be better
described as the “big American”.
Australian ownership is a measly 6 per cent." The “mining industry is found
to be 90 per cent
foreign owned”. (p. 1) Australian equity in the LNG industry
is
4.3 per cent (list of mining companies, p. 13, here)
David Richardson: Foreign investment in Australia.
Australian big business is not Australian at all.
Canberra June 2022, link
The first autobahn in Papua New Guinea
(Lae-Nadzab road, <40 km)
photo: National 9 June 2022, link
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Canberra called on to rein in mining
companies eyeing Bougainville
RNZ on 1
June 2022, link
People
panning for gold along the Kawerong river in Panguna, Bougainville;
photo: Dina Rui/Jubilee
Australia
New
Report by Jubilee Australia: Scramble for Resources –
The
International Race for Bougainville's Mineral Wealth, link
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PNG election 2022
for the 11th Parliament since independence 1975 |
Nomination day, National 19 May 2022, link
22 provinces (governors) and 96 Members of Parliament (MPs)
source: National 19 May 2022, link
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says resetting China–Australia
relations
requires 'concrete action'; RNZ 4 June 2022, link
Wang Lutong, Twitter 31 May 2022
China's whirlwind Pacific tour a slight
success
with several bilateral agreements signed
Analysis by RNZ 1 June 2022, link, 3 June 2022, link
China, Pacific islands unable to reach consensus on security pact
RNZ 30 May 2022, link
Quad summit: The China factor at the
heart of the meeting
(L-R) Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister
Fumio Kishida and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pose for photo before the QUAD leaders
meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on May 24, 2022. Photo: MASANORI GENKO;
RNZ 24 May 2022, link
Spiegel Online: Wettlauf mit den USA.
China will Einfluss im Südpazifik ausweiten
25. Mai 2022, link
Grafik: Spiegel Online
China seeking wide-ranging Pacific deal, Reuters 25 May 2022, link
High-level visit by the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to the Pacific
RNZ 24 May 2022, link
Solomon´s leader confirms security pact with China
RNZ 30 March 2022, link
New China-Solomon Islands Security Agreement? link, link
Solomon Islands prime minister Manasseh Sogavare (right) with Li Ming, China's first
ambassador to the Solomon Islands. Photo: George Herming - Gov. Communications Unit
RNZ 25 March 2022
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On the death of Ben Micah: Admission and contrition
By Keith Jackson, PNG Attitude, 17 March 2022, link
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US$9 billion P’nyang gas project signed between the State PNG
and the project developer ExxonMobil; 24 Feb 2022, link, link
Photo: National 24 Feb 2022
Map showing the P’nyang gas project in Western province;
source: Oil & Gas Journal 16 May 2021
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Panguna mine; Photo: RNZ/Johnny Blades
Deal to re-open Bougainville's Panguna mine, momentous
Interview with Kevin McQuillan about the significance of the decision
RNZ on 18 Feb 2022, link
Panguna share value doubles overnight
Post-Courier 14 Feb. 2022, link
Bougainville: Panguna mine to reopen
National 11 Feb. 2022, link
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Sepik River communities file human rights complaint against Frieda mine project
National 22 Dec 2021, link and RNZ 9 Dec 2021, link
Frieda River heading north to join the Sepik River. Photo: Facebook - SEPIK Capital, PNG -
Wewak Urban Local Level Government
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New report by AidWatch, Jubilee Australia
and the Paga Hill community “The story of Paga Hill should be seen as a ‘cautionary tale’ for others to be prepared for forced development in Papua New Guinea and be one step ahead of what’s coming.” National 13 Dec 2021 link & report link |
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Australian Police and Defence Force as well as
PNG Police personnel sent to Honiara
Only six buildings still standing in Honiara's Chinatown. Photo: RNZ 26 Nov 21, Georgina Kekea
Analyses (DevPolicy Blog) by Transform Aqorau, link,
Stephen Howes, link and Terence Wood, link
24 Nov 2021: Anti-government riots in Honiara,
the capital of the Solomon Islands
cf. RNZ link, ABC link, Twitter link
Photo: Georgina Kekea on Twitter
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Buchtipp 2021
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Title of the original American edition:
Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping Harvard University Press London 2019 |
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New survey reveals rampant levels of corruption in the Pacific
Photo: Transparency International
What the TI Global Corruption Barometer found in the Pacific:
- Corruption is frequently a problem in both government and business
- Many government-business relationships lack integrity
- Corrupt officials often go unpunished
- Corruption in public services is common
- Uneven access to public services drives corruption
- Political integrity is low, particularly around elections
- Sexual extortion - or sextortion - is a very concerning issue
- People support their Governments' anti corruption efforts
- Citizens believe they can help stop corruption
see news RNZ 17 Nov 2021 link and TI report link
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People at the Waigani bus stop area in Port Moresby on Monday. Most of
them ignored
the Covid-19 health measures such as wearing a face mask. –
Nationalpic by JOEL HAMARI
Papua New Guinea: Covid-19 and "the silent dead"
News story: National 7 Oct 2021, link
Bougainville public service to run independently of PNG
Bougainville's public service is now to officially operate independently
of Papua New Guinea's.This follows the formal transfer of the remaining
powers and
functions of the Department of the Autonomous Bougainville
Government
from the PNG national government; National 9 Aug 2021, link
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Repression not the answer to Fiji´s political dilemma
Opinion by Steven Ratuva, Radio New Zealand, 2 Aug 2021, link
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Human Rights Law Centre, 21 July 2021:
Bougainville communities secure commitment from Rio Tinto
to assess environmental and human rights impacts of former mine; link
Panguna tailings wasteland; photo: HRLC
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Indonesian lawmakers pass controversial
bill to reshape West Papua
Johnny Blades, Radio New Zealand 16 July 2021, link
A demonstration by West Papuans against the Indonesian government's plans for Special
Autonomy provisions for their region, Manokwari, 15 July 2021 Photo: RNZ
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2027 target date for Bougainville independence
Bougainville's leaders have accepted a deadline of no later than 2027 to gainindependence from Papua New Guinea, RNZ 8 July 2021, link
PNG's prime minister James
Marape (right) shakes hands with Ishmael Toroama, the president of the
autonomous region of Bougainville, 5 February 2021.
Photo: RNZ 16.04.2021, PNG PM Media
Australian gold project Simberi reports failure at tailings pipeline
(deep sea tailings placement, DSTP) in New Ireland, PNG National 2 July 2021, link
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Westpapuan Freeport eyes copper project in PNG
National 2 July 2021, link
Environmental groups, scientists call for ban on deep sea mining
Hundreds of scientists, and coalitions of churches, environmentalists, and NGOs are
part of a widespread outcry calling for a ban on deep sea mining, RNZ 2 July 2021, link
Victor Pickering, a Greenpeace activist from Fiji, in front of the Maersk
Launcher, a ship chartered by DeepGreen. Photo: Supplied / Greenpeace
Deep sea mining by 2023 gets green light in Pacific
The International Seabed Authority has two years to finalise regulations
governing
the controversial industry; see The Guardian, 30 June 2021, link; statement by Deep
Sea Conservation Coalition link and WWF 29 June 2021 link, PANG, Fiji 1 July 2021 link
Illustration © WWF
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Scientists from across the world call for a moratorium
on deep-sea mining. Signed by 317 marine science &
policy experts from 44 countries, 24 June 2021, link
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47th session of the UN Human Rights Council, Geneva, 22 June 2021
While a group of 44 European and Western countries (including the Pacific states
of the Marshall Islands, Nauru and Palau) expressed concern about China´s human
rights violations in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong (link), 69 developing countries
led by Belarus, including the Pacific states of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands,
Kiribati and Tonga, sided with Beijing and rejected interference in China´s internal
affairs (link).
States of the world and the human rights situation in China 2021
Source: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Map of the Month July 2021, link, large map here
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G7 in Africa
Süddeutsche Zeitung 14.6.2021
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