Equatorial Guinea gained independence from Spain on October 12, 1968, and Spanish remains the official language spoken by around 85% of its population. The small country is made up of both ...

Guinea’s father of independence, Sékou Touré, ruled Guinea from independence from France in 1958 until his death in 1984. 3 Embracing a mixture of pan-Africanism and Marxist ideology ...

Papua New Guinea's copper- and gold-rich Bougainville region is set to declare independence by 2027, eight years after a landslide vote to secede, its leader said Wednesday. The region -- home to ...

King Charles has expressed his sadness to hear of the death of Sir Julius Chan, the two-time former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, who died aged 85. The last "founding father" of the Pacific ...

The PNG PM who tried to crush the Bougainville rebellion with foreign mercenaries then became an unlikely ally for ...

At the time, Guinea was in the midst of a "political tempest", she wrote. France had promised the country independence, but also required Guineans to vote in a referendum on whether or not the ...

8, No. 4, SPECIAL VOLUME ON ‘SECURITY IN THE PACIFIC ARC’ (SUMMER 2012), pp. 47-60 (14 pages) Since independence in 1975 Papua New Guinea has enjoyed a generally benign external security environment, ...