At the edge of the prime minister’s compound, hundreds of protesters tugged at the gates and set a guard booth on fire. “We are not calling in the Australians,” Prime Minister James Marape of Papua New Guinea told a reporter visiting him in his office. “We can handle this ourselves.”Last week’s deadly unrest caught officials unaware and left Mr. Marape grappling with a fast-moving crisis. Papua New Guinea has a very large youth population, but few jobs to offer its young people, making economic hardship even more severe. Within hours, Port Moresby, the capital, was rocked by a level of violence it had not seen in decades.

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Persons: James Marape Organizations: Bullets, ” Locations: Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby