The UN accused Australia Monday of backtracking on a deal to relax its strong stance on asylum-seekers and resettle some refugees now held in overseas detention on home soil. The UN High Commissioner...
Hundreds of refugees being held at a remote Papua New Guinea detention camp will be moved by October despite uncertainty over a resettlement deal with the United States, Australia's immigration...
The abrupt departure of American officials from an Australian Pacific island refugee camp has fanned fears among asylum-seekers that plans to resettle them in the US may not go ahead, an activist...
An Afghan man who reportedly made millions of dollars smuggling asylum-seekers to Australia by boat has been extradited from Indonesia and charged with 10 offences, Australian police said Friday....
A photograph supposedly showing Amelia Earhart alive in the Marshall Islands in 1937 that caused a stir earlier this month is from a Japanese book published years before the famed aviatrix...
Despite being marred by violence, vote-buying and flaws in the electoral roll, results from Papua New Guinea's sprawling election should reflect the will of the people, observers said Monday....
A Marshall Islands-based military expert has cast further doubt on claims that a blurry photograph shows famed US aviatrix Amelia Earhart alive in the territory in 1937. The fate of the legendary...
It is one of the most tantalizing mysteries in aviation lore -- the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. What happened to the legendary American aviatrix and her navigator, Fred Noonan, during their 1937...
Counting is under way in Papua New Guinea's sprawling elections, officials said Thursday, but voting has been marred by claims of rigging, electoral roll flaws and ballot paper shortages. The last...
Voting began in Papua New Guinea elections Saturday with the Pacific nation's leader urging peaceful polling to show it has "come of age", as he seeks another term to fix an economy under siege....
Papua New Guineans go to the polls Saturday in an election the country's leader sees as a turning point for a Pacific nation once described as a "totally dysfunctional blob". Since the last election...
Detainees at a controversial Australian asylum-seeker camp in Papua New Guinea won Aus$70 million ($53 million) in compensation on Wednesday after alleging they suffered physical and psychological...
Three men from Australia, Fiji and Papua New Guinea are missing after their boat capsized off PNG, officials said Monday, as a fourth man was reportedly rescued on a isolated beach after scrawling...
Remote mountains in Papua New Guinea could be home to some of the world's tallest trees at extreme altitudes, scientists said Wednesday, with a new study questioning assumptions about forests at such...
Faceless fish and other weird and wonderful creatures, many of them new species, have been hauled up from the deep waters off Australia during a scientific voyage studying parts of the ocean never...
I sent e-mails to two prominent journalists to do a story about the frustrations of the Ghanaian passport holder in travelling within Africa and the world. I thought they would tell my story for me....
Ahead of the 42nd Sports Writers Association of Ghana Awards night to be held on May 27th, Ghanaweb unfolds the full list of nominees and winners for the prestigious event which will be graced by...
Australia Sunday gave 7,500 boatpeople until October to prove they are genuine refugees or be kicked out, declaring the "game is up" for illegal arrivals ripping off taxpayers. Before the...
Former Asante Kotoko boss Mas-Ud Dramani has benefited from the various changes that are ongoing at the Ghana Football Association by being named the head coach of the Black Queens. The ambitious...
The prison in Lae, Papua New Guinea, has seen repeated similar escapades over the years Prison guards have shot dead 17 inmates after a mass breakout at Buimo prison in Papua New Guinea. Three...
