Analysis - When Papua New Guinea's National Executive Council (NEC) handed down Decision 41/95 in the mid-1990s, it was pitched as modernisation - a shift from government-led construction to a private ...

Meanwhile, gross debt-to-GDP is forecast to decline from around 48.4 percent in 2025 to 45.5 percent in 2026 - with a further projected drop to around 42 percent in 2027. Ling-Stuckey said these ...

On this day in 2022, Roy Trivedy, a humanitarian worker who grew up in Welwyn Garden City, was honoured for his work in Timor-Leste.

What is happening in Syria? When the civil war ended in Syria in 2024, the country entered into a period of transition and recovery. Nearly a million former refugees have returned to Syria, and 1.9 ...

Oxfam partners are trying to get food, clean water, and medicine to desperate families. Here’s the latest, and what you can do to help. Getting humanitarian aid into Gaza is a complicated mess—but it ...

“This will truly be the golden age of America,” President Donald Trump promised in his victory speech a year ago. America is hardly golden, unless President Trump meant gilded. We're witnessing an ...

South Africa’s Harmony Gold is evaluating a substantial copper venture in Papua New Guinea in partnership with US mining giant Newmont Corporation, chairman Patrice Motsepe said on Tuesday. “There’s a ...

BISSAU, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Fernando Dias, widely seen as the leading challenger in Guinea-Bissau's presidential election, and President Umaro Sissoco Embalo's camp both declared victory on Monday ...

As the West African nation prepares to hold parliamentary and presidential polls, the disqualification of major opposition figures leaves incumbent President Umaro Sissoco Embalo in a strong position.

Army officers say they are in charge of West African country until further notice President Embalo says he has been deposed Gunfire rings out in capital before officers' announcement Guinea-Bissau is ...

Voting stations are open in Guinea-Bissau, where the government has been afflicted by repeated coup attempts and where President Umaro Sissoco Embalo is seeking a rare second term in office amid ...

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