World’s newest nation: Bougainville votes for independence from Papua New Guinea
World’s newest nation: Bougainville votes for independence from Papua New Guinea
More than 180,000 people in Bougainville, a collection of islands flung 700km off the coast of Papua New Guinea in the Solomon Sea, participated in a referendum over the last few weeks that has been nearly 20 years in the making.
Almost 98% of people (176,928 people) voted for independence.