News archive
A logging truck heads through the village of Vanimo, Papua New Guinea, en route to the Vanimo Forest
Products log camp where the logs will be loaded onto a ship for export
to China. Photograph: Chicago
Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty
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23 July 2021:
Samoa court declares FAST party new government;
link
More than 100 days since the 9 April election Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, the daughter
of Samoa's first prime minister, becomes the country's first woman in the role.
Political and Constitutional Crisis in Samoa:
Samoa incumbent leader rejects first female Prime Minister's swearing in as 'treason'
Reports by Radio New Zealand
link
Photo: RNZ/Vinay Ranchhod, RNZ 27 May 2021
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Fiji´s 1987 coup: from trauma to cohesion
By Shailendra Singh, DevPolicy Blog on 25 May 2021, link
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Titelstory der Nürnberger Nachrichten vom 22. Mai 2021:
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Kolonialismus: Wie Neuendettelsauer Missionare Neuguinea ausbeuteten
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Sachbuch & Literaturtipp Mai 2021
Das Luf-Boot vor der Handelsstation von Hernsheim & Co. auf Matupi, 1903.
Foto: Richard Parkinson/Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Götz Aly: Das Prachtboot. Wie Deutsche die
Kunstschätze der Südsee raubten.
link zum Verlag
SPIEGEL-Online Interview mit Götz Aly:
Kolonialverbrechen in der Südsee
"Die Deutschen zerstörten ein Paradies -
und behaupten bis heute das Gegenteil"
8. Mai 2021, link
Artikel Süddeutsche Zeitung:
Das unmögliche Exponat.
10. Mai 2021, link
s.a Artikel in der Neuen Züricher Zeitung
vom 19. Mai 2021, link
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Katharina Döbler: Dein ist das Reich. Ein
ungewöhnlicher
Familienroman über ein
verschwiegenes Kapitel deutscher Geschichte:
die
Beziehung zwischen christlichem
Sendungsbewusstsein, Kolonialismus und
Rassismus. Rezension von Jörg Häntzschel
in Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 3. Juli 2021,
link
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Papua New Guinea´s founding father Sir Michael Somare died
Friday, 26 February 2021
Image: National 2 March 2021, link
`Papa blo kantri´ Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare in Madang 2012 (photo: Roland Seib)
Obituaries on the death of Sir Michael by Ron May (ANU),
link and Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific Journalist,
link
PNG’s first prime
minister, Michael Somare, and first Governor-General, John Guise,
Independence
Day ceremony, 1975 (photo:Denis Williams/PNG Post Courier)
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PNG: Government accepts new gold and copper mine
Illustration: National 28 Feb. 2021, link
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Bougainville president meets rebel king in reconciliation
RNZ 26 Jan. 2021,
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'King' Noah Musingku meets Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama at Tonu, 22 January 2021.
Photo: Anthony Kaybing / ABG
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Since 13 November 2020:
Power struggle for the post of prime minister in Papua New Guinea
16 December 2020: A sigh of relief, full story RNZ 17 Dec. 2020,
link
Photo: National 17 Dec. 2020, link
Image: PNG National 11 Dec. 2020, link
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(17. Nov. 2020) Website der AG Tiefseebergbau ist online:
www.stoptiefseebergbau.de
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(2 Nov. 2020) Neues Positionspapier des AK Rohstoffe:
Krisenverschärfendes Handeln stoppen - Rohstoffwende umsetzen,
link
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Walking into Nogoli, PNG Highlands
© James McIlraith/University of Otago
| New Report from ACT NOW!,
Jubilee Australia and the Oakland Institute:
Calls for a Dramatic Change from Extraction
to Inclusion for Real Development in
Papua New Guinea, Oct. 2020, link
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Ishmael
Toroama declared president-elect of Bougainville, PNG
RNZ 23 Sept. 2020,
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(1 Sept 2020) new report: Intern. Cyber Policy Centre & Australian Strategic
Policy Institute:
The Chinese Communist Party´s coercive diplomacy,
link
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(17 August 2020)
East Sepik people have rejected the Frieda River
copper/gold project according to Governor Allan Bird;
link
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(6 August 2020)
The Oxygen Project - STOP DEEP SEABED MINING!
Legendary eco-activists Jane Fonda and Sylvia
Earle, along with Phillipe Cousteau,
Julien Lennon, and other
conservationists star in this emotional video asking us
to help stop a
destructive new industry: Deep Seabed Mining;
link
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(25 July 2020) Article by Franco Zocca from 2012 about Belden Namah,
currently Papua New Guinea´s opposition leader in the national parliament:
Life excursus of Mr Belden Namah, here
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53 countries, including Papua New Guinea, supporting
China's crackdown
on Hong Kong at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva
Dave Lawler, Axios 2 July 2020, link
map: Axios
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(25 June 2020) New paper: Pacific Network on Globalization & Ozeanien-Dialog
Rough Seas: Looming Dangers of the Blue Economy,
link
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New photo gallery New Zealand available
here
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New Report Highlights Deep Sea Nodule Mining
Danger to Pacific Ocean and Island Nations
Deep Sea Mining Campaign, 20 May 2020,
link
Image: WILLYAM
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Inside Indonesia's Secret War for West Papua
Just north of Australia a secret war is being fought. West Papuan independence
fighters and Indonesian security forces are involved in a protracted and bloody
battle over the issue of Papuan independence. ABC Foreign Correspondent
12 May 2020; link; Background:
The battle for West Papuan independence has intensified; Post-Courier link
Ronny Kareni, West Papuan Musician and Activist, Canberra
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Arbeitskreis Rohstoffe:
12 Argumente für eine Rohstoffwende, 5. Mai 2020,
link
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"Save the Sepik"
`Project Sepik´ calls for PNG Government to halt Frieda mining project
Frieda River heading north to join the Sepik River. Photo: Facebook - Sepik Capital, PNG -
Wewak Urban Local Level Government; RNZ 9 April 2020 link
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| Literaturtipp:
"Die zornige Stimme der
Internierten in Australien" (SZ)
"Woher komme ich? Aus dem Land der
Flüsse, dem Land der Wasserfälle, dem
Land der uralten Gesänge, dem Land der Berge. (...) Aus einem kleinen Dorf inmitten eines Kastanienwalds." (291)
Original title: "No Friend but the Mountains.
Writing from Manus Prison". Sydney 2018
zum Hintergrund: link
Rezension von Jan Bielicki,
Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 3. Feb. 2019, link
see also J.M. Coetzee, New York
Review of Books 26 Sept. 2019, link
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23-year old Geraldine Damana and her
baby Joylin, outside their home inside
the Panguna mine pit; photo: HRLC
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New report by
Human Rights Law Centre:
After the mine.
Living with Rio Tinto´s deadly legacy.
April 2020, link
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Death toll from Papua 2019 protest month put at 59, RNZ 6 March 2020,
link
Protest march in Jayapura, West Papua against racism towards Papuans in Indonesia 19 Aug 2019
photo: RNZ 6 March 2020
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19 Feb 2020 new report by the London Mining Network:
Cut and run: How Britain´s top mining companies have
wrecked ecosystems without being held to account,
link
Neue Studie der Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik zur
Strategischen Rivalität zwischen USA und China, Feb. 2020,
link
Documentary:
Malaysian Logging Colonialism in Papua New Guinea
UK based Sarawak Report by journalist Clare Rewcastle-Brown, 7 Jan 2020,
link
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Interview mit der Deutschen Welle:
Chinas "Umarmung" der Pazifikinseln beunruhigt Westen
Pekings verstärktes Engagement in der Südsee ist bislang nur wirtschaftlich.
Aber militärisch-strategische Absichten werden vermutet, Sicherheitspolitiker
in der Nachbarschaft sind alarmiert. Sogar Berlin hat reagiert.
2. Dezember 2019,
link
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Bougainville referendum report gives historical perspective
Radio New Zealand/RNZ 12 June 2020,
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Final Bougainville referendum report presented to PNG
RNZ 5 June 2020,
link
In photos: Bougainville chooses independence, as Papua New Guinea makes pitch.
RNZ 20 December 2019,
link
The Bougainville Referendum Commission (BRC) returned the referendum writ
with the results to the Governor General at Government House in Port Moresby
RNZ 13 Dec 2019, Photo: Facebook/BRC
Bougainville voted yes to becoming the world´s newest nation. Now
begins the gold rush.
ABC-PNG correspondent Natalie Whiting on 13
December 2019,
link
11 December 2019: Bougainville - A new sovereign state is born
Bougainville flag flies high in Panguna Photo: RNZ Pacific 21 Nov 2019 Johnny Blades
A 97.7 percent majority has voted for independence in Bougainville´s historic
referendum. Over 85 percent of those enrolled having voted. Consultations with
the Papua New Guinea government will follow. The chairperson of the Bougainville
Referendum Commission, former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern, paid tribute to
the people for their enthusiastic and peaceful participation. The leader of the
Australian Observation Mission, Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne, said,
the referendum process was "free, fair and credible".
link
People of Bougainville celebrating the outcome of the referendum in Buka on Wednesday,
Photo: The New York Times 11 Dec 2019, Courtesy of Serahphina Aupong/UN in PNG via AP
Bougainville people take their flag with them to vote for the referendum.
Photo: RNZ 7 Dec 2019, Johnny Blades
Photo essay: Bougainville´s historic independence referendum,
RNZ 6 Dec 2019
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Bougainville referendum inspires hope, RNZ 28 Nov 2019
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23 Nov - 7 Dec 2019 Polling period for the referendum on
Bougainville´s independence from Papua New Guinea
PNG leaders caution ahead of Bougainville vote, RNZ 22 Nov 2019,
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Bougainvilleans check the voter roll ahead of their region´s independence referendum;
Photo: RNZ 7 Nov 2019, Bougainville Referendum Commission
"Whatever we think about
whether independence for Bougainville is a good or bad
thing, the more
important principle is that we work to honour UN-ratified peace
agreements. If our region fails to do that, if the UN Security Council
fails to, we
will find it more difficult to reach peace agreements to
end future wars."
John Braithwaite and Miranda Forsyth, 28 Sept 2017,
Blog
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China's
'soft invasion' of the South Pacific pathway to greater influence
Nine news.com 17 Nov. 2019, link
Graphic: 9news.com
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Chinese-owned Ramu Nickel mine in PNG shut down after toxic slurry spill
Photo: RNZ 24 Oct. 2019 Facebook Elisha Wesley Mizeu; See ABC report 25 Oct 2019 link
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Akilisi Pohiva´s son wins by-election, RNZ 28 Nov 2019
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Pacific leaders pay tribute to Akilisi Pohiva,
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12 Sept 2019, Akilisi Pohiva, the leading figure of Tonga´s pro-democracy
movement and twofold prime minister died today at the age of 78; RNZ
link
Keith Locke (former NZ Green MP):
A democratic giant of Tonga – a tribute link
photo: Akilisi Pohiva, at the 2019 Pacific Islands Forum summit in Tuvalu.
Photo: RNZ / Jamie Tahana
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Das moderne Weltsystem - Zum Tode von Immanuel Wallerstein.
Ein Nachruf. SZ vom 3. Sept. 2019,
link
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PNG´s Resource Curse: Double or Nothing Revisited
Paul Flanagan, PNG Economics, 12 June 2019,
link
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Old Apia Courthouse completely demolished
photo: Areta Areta, Samoa Observer 6 June
2020, link
Demolition of historical courthouse in Samoa begins
Link: RNZ 19 May 2020
New Zealand, British, Australian and French servicemen raise the Union Jack
at the Apia courthouse in August 1914 Photo: nzhistory.govt.nz
117 year-old German colonial courthouse in Apia will be pulled down, Samoan PM
Photo: Roland Seib, 2011; RNZ report 8 June 2019 link
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New Papua New Guinea prime minister calls for unity
James Marape, left, being sworn in as prime minister of PNG by the
governor general Sir Robert Dadae, 30 May 2019. Photo:
PNG prime minister´s office media; link RNZ report
Marape promises to rebuild country in first address to PNG, link RNZ 6 June 2019
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and officials meet with Papua New Guinea´s Prime Minister
Peter O´Neill and ministerial colleagues at the 2nd global Belt & Road Forum in Beijing,
25 April 2019; Photo: Xinhua/Yan Yan
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On the death of Bill Standish, Australian National University, Canberra
Dr Bill Standish, 14.6.1944 - 31.3.2019, remembered as a fearless commentator
and expert analyst of PNG politics. An excellent colleague. During my PhD
research in 1988, I shared a room with Bill at the ANU for three months.
Link: Liam Fox on Pacific Beat, 15 April 2019
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Video Tipp:
Lost in Dhaka, March 2019
link
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| Book review:
In defence of `Silent Invasion´
The book that launched a thousand rants
by Kevin Carrico
Policy Forum of the Asia & The Pacific
Policy Society, 1 March 2019, link
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New study by Jubilee Australia, 14 June 2019,
link:
The Frieda River Mine and the Threat to the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea
for more information link:
Save the Sepik river and its people
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Human Rights Watch calls for Indonesia to investigate the Death of Papuans
killed during protests across the country; RNZ
link 9 Sept 2019
Wut und Armut in Papua; Arne Perras in Süddeutsche Zeitung, 23. August 2019;
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West Papua rebels unite to form new army; RNZ
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The newly formed United Liberation Movement for West Papua. Photo: RNZ 1 July 2019
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Environmental toll of oil spill still being calculated, Solomon Times 3 July 2019,
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Analysis: The political economy of the Solomon Islands oil spill, by Daniel Evans
DevPolicyBlog, 8 March 2019,
link
The
MV Solomon Trader stuck on a reef off Rennell Island in the Solomon
Islands is leaking oil into the
ocean. Feb. 2019. Photo: Australian
High Commission in Solomon Islands, Radio New Zealand, 4 March 2019
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Chinese
President Xi Jinping (L)
holds talks with Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill in
Port Moresby on 16 Nov. 2018 (Xinhua/Ding Lin); Assessments of
the APEC summit by the APEC minister Tkatchenko, National
link, Nick Bisley, ABC News (US-China tensions leave
cooperation in the cold)
link, Arne Perras in Sueddeutsche Zeitung (Eine Konferenz wird zur Arena)
link und Tagesschau zum APEC Gipfel vom 18. Nov. 2018
link
Group photo before a banquet held for
leaders and representatives attending the
26th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting
and their spouses in Port Moresby,
Papua New Guinea, on Nov. 17, 2018
(Xinhua/Xie Huanchi)
APEC House POM, Photo: RNZ 26 Oct. 2019 AFP/DOZIER Marc / hemis.fr
Fleet of Maserati Quattroportes bought by
the Papua New Guinea government
for the APEC Summit 2018 (photo and report carscoops,
4 Oct 2021, link)
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Air Niugini`s Boeing 737-800 landing in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia
Photo: AFP or licensors, Radio New Zealand, 29 September 2018,
link
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June 2018
Post-election riots in PNGs
Southern Highlands Province:
first Air Niugini aircraft set alight, link
Photo: Martyn Namarong on Twitter
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Oceans Face Ultimate Threat from Deep Sea Mining
Urgent Need for Moratorium on Deep Sea Mining Exploration and Exploitation
Joint letter of scientists and NGOs to the International Seabed Authority (ISA)
25 July 2018,
here
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New Report of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN):
Deep seabed mining: A rising environmental challenge"We
are operating in the dark. Our current understanding of the deep sea
does not allow us to effectively protect marine life from mining
operations." (Carl Gustaf Lundin) "Stringent precautionary measures to
protect the marine environment should be a core part of any mining
regulations, yet these remain missing in action." (Kristina Gjerde) 16 July 2018,
link
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Stop the Exploitation of the Deep Sea!
POSITION PAPER OF GERMAN CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS
ON DEEP SEA MINING
AG Tiefseebergbau 14. Mai 2018, deutsch
hier, English
here
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Jonathan Pryke:
What next for Papua New Guinea? A series of papers of Sydney´s Lowy Institute assessing the contemporary state of PNG
(local politics, the PNG society, the internal security, the current
state of the economy, the infrastructure, the changing nature of
geopolitics in PNG, and a summarising paper on future scenarios). 6
December 2017,
link
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18 December 2017:
Pohiva retains
Tonga prime ministership.
link
17 November 2017:
Akilisi Pohiva´s
Democratic Party has won a resounding
election victory in Tonga.
Voters continue to back political reform.
link
