In 2019, Bougainville’s independence referendum was a landslide in favor of new nationhood: 97 percent voted yes, with more ...

The Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) and its people are in mourning following the passing of renowned women's rights ...

One of the first women to hold an open seat in Bougainville, Theonila Roka Matbob, is "more relaxed, more focused" and ...

"The breakdown in command and early release of prisoners was very bad for the system," Tokura stated. "It leaves a vacuum and ...

A round-up of news from around the region, including reports out of the Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville that prison ...

The residents of Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea, have voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence. Find out how to travel there and what to do when you arrive.

Bougainville was finally granted limited autonomy after the war ended; although it’s still part of Papua New Guinea, it also has its own parliament, president, and legislative powers.

Bougainville is ecologically and geographically part of the Solomon Islands archipelago but politically it is part of Papua New Guinea (PNG.) ...

Bougainville Copper, a company in which the local government (known as the Autonomous Bougainville Government) has a 36.4% stake is up 200% over the past three weeks with a rise from 6.5 cents ...

Bougainville Birds Provide A 100-Year Baseline For Biodiversity : Short Wave In the early 1900s, the Whitney South Sea expedition gathered 40,000 bird specimens for the American Museum of Natural ...

For Bougainville — an area with huge mineral wealth and 250,000 people — the vote also makes it much harder for Papua New Guinea to move slowly through the consultation period required under ...