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Incumbent Member for North-Fly and People’s Reform Party Leader James Donald has retained his seat for the second term polling past the absolute Majority with 12 648 votes. Returning officer George Papin made the declaration of the member-elect for North Fly James Donald at 5pm this afternoon at the PNGDF Forward Operating Base -KIUNGA before counting officials, scrutineers and the Joint Security personnel.   Election Manager Paul Max acknowledged the counting officials, scrutineers and the Joint Security forces, the District and the Provincial Administration for the support during this election. Member-elect James Donald also acknowledged everyone for their tireless efforts during the course of the election until the declaration. James Donald wishes to maintain unity in the province saying he will wait for the other four seats to conclude before they depart together to form the next government. Donald says there are many things yet to be done, and he thanks the people of North Fly for

 Papua New Guinea Prime Minister  James Marape hits the ground running in the frontier-breaking clean green energy projects he has been championing over the last two years when he met with leaders of Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) in Singapore today to progress the talks further.  He said from Singapore FFI has voiced its intention to partner Papua New Guinea in a big way to harvest clean green energy from both hydro and geothermal sources as well as move later down the line into solar and wind energy production. Currently, FFI has identified and set up project sites in Gulf Province for hydro and West New Britain Province for geothermal work and has been working in these areas since the signing of two important agreements since 2021.  Prime Minister said from Singapore today: “With global consciousness of fossil fuel-induced global warming, clean green energy is the way to moving into the future and this meeting follows on the Head Agreement PNG has signed with FFI to progress inve