Bougainville in a sentence

The Year 2023 has been a very tough year for both National Government and Bougainville on all Bougainville matters.

Papua Guinea has much to lose if Bougainville gains independence, especially in terms of access to Bougainville’s natural resources.

The Princessa and Bougainville's Auguste at one point were close enough that the French admiral considered a boarding action; Drake managed to pull away, but this gave Bougainville the chance to target the Terrible.

The development of the mine galvanized Bougainville’s determination to become independent.

BCL Chairman Sir Mel Tologo said as the mine’s former operator and holder of the EL01 exploration licence for the area, BCL maintains a presence and is recognised as a development partner on the ground in Bougainville.

Bougainville first called for an independence referendum or to be incorporated into the Solomon Islands in 1968, when Papua New Guinea was controlled by Australia.

It’s almost five years since the referendum, and there is still no positive response from the PNG government,” Barbara Tanne, president of the Bougainville Women’s Federation, told Al Jazeera.

PNG’s exhibition booth displayed stunning imagery, videos and information brochures about the cruise destinations in Milne Bay, East New Britain, East Sepik, Morobe, Port Moresby and the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.

THE country was only 14 years old when the Bougainville crisis happened and the scars forever remain, says Prime Minister James Marape.

His work as president will need to be for the well-being of Melanesia as a whole, not just Bougainville.

Toroama’s cabinet includes a mix of the old and the new, as well as, for the first time since the inception of the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG), two women.

Experts believe the 250,000 people of Bougainville will vote overwhelming in favour of independence ahead of the other option, which is greater autonomy, but the vote will not be the final word.

For years, the Bougainville government has asked the company to make contributions to help with the clean up.

From Bougainville referendum to Nithyananda’s Kailaasa, how is a new country formed?

Navy and Marine fighters like the F4F Wildcat and F4U Corsair didn’t have the range to intercept Yamamoto’s aircraft over Bougainville, four hundred miles from the nearest American air base on Guadalcanal.

Overseeing the vote is the chairman of the Bougainville Referendum Commission (BRC), former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern, who has said the referendum "should be celebrated".

Screengrab Bougainville goes to the polls to vote for independence.

The mine was also at the center of a decade-long civil war fought between the Bougainville Revolutionary Army and the Papua New Guinea Defense Force in the 1990s.

The Solomon Islands, which adjoins Bougainville, abandoned Taipei in favor of Beijing in September, followed days later by Kiribati.

After a stay in South America and the Falklands, Bougainville reached Tahiti in April 1768, where his boat was surrounded by hundreds of canoes filled with beautiful women.