The United Bougainville Front (UBF) party will not field a presidential candidate in the 2025 Autonomous Bougainville ...

Faith leaders across Bougainville are actively partnering with the Office of the Bougainville Electoral Commissioner (OBEC) ...

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

Bougainville’s cobalt-blue flag was tossed to an outside wall next to a clock honoring the island’s unique time zone, one ...

From colonial occupation and environmental destruction to cultural revival, armed resistance, and a bold vision for ...

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

The name “Bougainville” (pronounced Bo-gan-ville) is etched into the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. Americans with long memories may recall Bougainville’s role in World War II ...

Political deadlock frustrates Bougainville’s aspirations of independence. The territory voted in 2019 to leave Papua New Guinea, but the country’s parliament is still to ratify the separation.

Bougainville faces an array of challenges – political, practical, and developmental hurdles among them – that obstruct its long-awaited welcome to the world stage.

Bougainville has a long history of unwanted interference from outsiders, including missionaries, plantation owners and colonial administrations (German, British, Japanese and Australian).

Bougainville was PNG's economic powerhouse for two decades until 1989, when a bloody civil war erupted over revenue from Panguna, the world's third-biggest open cut gold and copper mine and ...

The first hearing date has been set in a class action against miner Rio Tinto for historical environmental and social damage caused by the Bougainville copper mine in Papua New Guinea that it ...