Pacific news in brief for 21 July

Papua New Guinea police say 27 men have been arrested after investigation into the Sambio village massacre in Morobe Province ...
Post Courier

Hidden Valley is running a Brownfield mine

Basil Jnr asked the Prime Minister when the government will release the BDG and IDG because they have been waiting since 2023 ...
Post-Courier

ON THIS DAY IN OUR HISTORY: Morobe’s new premier – a woman!

Morobe Province has a new leader – the first woman in the country to become a premier. She is Mrs Enny Moaitz, provincial member for Wampar and minister for finance in the Samana government. Mrs ...
The Maravi Post

2026 Zambia Election: Mundubile makes roadside push in Lumezi as Tonse Pamodzi courts Eastern Province voters

LUNDAZI-(MaraviPost)-Opposition presidential candidate Brian Mundubile entered Lumezi Constituency in Zambia’s Eastern Province on June 27, 2026, in a campaign stop verified by his official channels.
BBC

The woman who fought for Pakistan's disappeared men now faces life in jail

When Dr Mahrang Baloch was a teenager, she joined hundreds of families across Pakistan's south-western province of Balochistan to search for her father, who was allegedly arrested by security forces ...
NPR

Inside the gold-mining town where the Ebola outbreak likely started

MONGBWALU, Democratic Republic of Congo — Joseph Mute witnessed a string of mysterious deaths in Mongbwalu long before the Congolese government declared an Ebola outbreak. A neighborhood leader in the ...