The region voted overwhelmingly for independence from Papua New Guinea in 2019, but realizing this in practice has been far ...

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, General Montcalm's aide-de-camp, was diminutive, overweight, asthmatic and possessed a good military mind. As he had already written two books on mathematics and was ...

After World War II, Bougainville entered a state of legal limbo as a United Nations Trust Territory. Australia still held administrative responsibility for the island and the neighboring archipelagos.

“Before battle, people prayed over the rosary ... the Allied Forces, left Bougainville after World War II, they dumped a lot ...