enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. 2024 Papua New Guinea floods - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Papua_New_Guinea_floods

    The floods ravaged the local economy, and many survived on only one meal per day. The government allocated 10,000 Papua New Guinean kinas ($2,645) for relief assistance. . The country is one of the most at-risk to climate change, ranking 16 according to the 2022 World Risk In

  3. 2024 in Papua New Guinea - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_in_Papua_New_Guinea

    12 December – Papua New Guinea receives a licence to have a local team play in the Australian National Rugby League beginning in 2028. [16] 22 December – A Britten-Norman BN-2B-26 Islander operated by North Coast Aviation crashes in Sapmanga Valley in Morobe Province. All five occupants were found dead the next day. [17] [18]

  4. 2024 Enga landslide - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Enga_landslide

    Papua New Guinea has regularly experienced fatal landslides resulting from its mountainous terrain, weather, climate, poverty, poor land use practices and government mismanagement. In 2024, the country saw intense rainfall and flooding, [2] and in April, 14 people died in a landslide, while 21 died in a landslide one month earlier. [5]

  5. 2024 East Sepik earthquake - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_East_Sepik_earthquake

    A bridge connecting the town to the Papua New Guinea Defence Force garrison at Moem Barracks also collapsed. [ 12 ] Allan Bird , the governor of East Sepik, said that the earthquake had "damaged most parts of the province", [ 12 ] with the worst affected areas being Angoram, Wosera-Gawi and Ambunti-Dreikikier Districts , as well as areas along ...

  6. 2024 Papua New Guinean unrest - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Papua_New_Guinean_unrest

    The 2024 Papua New Guinean unrest occurred on 10 January 2024 in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby, later spreading to Lae and other cities. The unrest began following protests by security officers due to a sudden reduction in their salaries and prime minister James Marape 's tax deduction announcement which was later retracted.

  7. Best of the best: The No.1's of 2024, from Taylor Swift's ...

    www.aol.com/best-best-no-1s-2024-160523856.html

    USA TODAY's critics have you covered. From movies and TV shows to concerts and Broadway, we picked the best in entertainment from a whirlwind 2024 in our annual top 10 lists. Now we're offering ...

  8. Papua New Guinea at the 2024 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea_at_the...

    Papua New Guinea entered two athletes to compete at the games. Gibson Mara qualified for Paris 2024, following the triumph of winning the final match in his weight class; meanwhile Kevin Kassman fail to win the final match in his weight class, but later on confirmed that he will compete for Paris 2024, after New Zealand taekwondo fail to meet the requirements for NOC nomination.

  9. Papua New Guinea - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea

    Papua New Guinea [note 1] [13] [note 2] is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia. It has a land border with Indonesia to the west and neighbours Australia to the south and the Solomon Islands to the east.