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Does extreme rainfall trigger tribal violence in PNG?

This post summarises a research dissertation on the same topic. In May 2024, a landslide in Enga Province buried more than 2,000 people and displaced an estimated 1,680 others. Both Prime Minister James Marape and the Red Cross later attributed the collapse to weeks of intense rainfall that had saturated the slope. The survivors were forced to move into surrounding areas, and the tribal violence that followed was severe enough to restrict humani…
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Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre broke the news on Wednesday, July 15, 2026.
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