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#theguardian.com. × Papua New Guinea offers cash for guns as amnesty opens to combat escalating tribal violence. Weapons amnesty and buyback scheme will run until August as PM James Marape says illegal guns ‘destroying families and villages’

#theguardian.com. × Suspected Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker seized in North Sea. Belgian special forces boarded the Ethera, which was sailing under the flag of Guinea, on Saturday night

#theguardian.com. × ‘It’s the sovereignty of the country’: Guinea-Bissau says US vaccine study suspended. Despite US pushback, officials in west Africa say controversial hepatitis B study on pause amid ethics concerns

#theguardian.com. × Papua New Guinea ‘not happy’ as Australia walks away from bid to host Cop31. Australia had been pushing to host climate conference next year with south Pacific nations, which are increasingly threatened by rising seas and climate-fuelled disasters

#theguardian.com. × US has sent $7.5m to Equatorial Guinea to accept noncitizen deportees. Country is one of world’s most repressive and corrupt, raising concerns over rights abuses of those deported

#theguardian.com. × A ‘bridge to prosperity’? Guinea’s junta touts opening of mining megaproject. Vast Simandou complex has 2.8bn tonnes of iron ore deposits, but many worry about its environmental cost

#theguardian.com. × ‘Each of us is afraid’: Guinea’s junta leader tightens grip as opposition lies low. Mamady Doumbouya has led the country since a 2021 coup. Some fear he has no intention of relinquishing power

#theguardian.com. × Sir Julius Chan, Papua New Guinea’s last ‘founding father’, dies aged 85. Outpouring of grief after death of Chan, the son of a migrant Chinese father and Indigenous mother, who served as prime minister twice

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