Across Papua New Guinea's Central Province and its capital Port Moresby, an El Niño drought has stripped away the quiet certainties of daily life — water, food, and the open doors of schools. What meteorologists foresaw has arrived in full, touching not only remote communities but the country's most populated center, where infrastructure meant to insulate urban life has also begun to fail. The provincial government has responded with what resources it can marshal, but the gap between what has been allocated and what is needed speaks to a familiar human predicament: the distance between the sca
PNG's Central Province Faces Severe Drought Crisis as El Niño Deepens Water and Food Insecurity
Communities face food insecurity, water shortages forcing school closures, and widespread crop damage affecting livelihoods and access to basic services.