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JET FUEL AVAILABILITY IN WESTERN PROVINCE: AIR NIUGINI RESUMES FLIGHT OPERATIONS TO KIUNGA AND TABUBIL

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MEDIA RELEASE Air Niugini is pleased to announce that following the establishment and opening of refuelling facilities on 01st February by our partners, OTML and Pacific Energy Aviation Limited (PEAL), Air Niugini has resumed its flights to Kiunga and Tabubil effective from yesterday, Sunday 02nd February.  Air Niugini is both pleased and relieved that compliant, sustainable, and appropriate jet fuel solutions have now been re-established in Tabubil, Kiunga, Mount Hagen and Lae.  This collaborative effort between OTML, PEAL and the airline is essential for maintaining safe flight operations for our valued customers travelling to and from Kiunga and Tabubil.  The availability of fuel at these four locations will also now permit the airline to carry more passengers and freight on routes to other Highlands and Momase destinations.  We look forward to the establishment of similar fuel facilities at locations such as Rabaul and Vanimo so that we can increase o...
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𝐌'𝐁𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐀 𝐁𝐄𝐋 (Born January 10th, 1959)

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★Her real Name𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐛𝐨𝐲𝐨 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐤𝐚
★ Stage Name 𝐌'𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐥.
★ At the age of seventeen, Mbilia Bel began her performing career, singing as a backup singer for 𝐀𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐢 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐢
★ She is known as the "Queen of Congolese and African Rumba".
In the early 1980s she joined Tabu Ley Rochereau's band (Afrisa International).
★ In the mid-1980s, the birth of their first child prompted her to take a break from performing for a year
★ Mbilia Bel's first album, released in 1982, was 𝗘𝘀𝘄𝗶 𝗬𝗼 𝗪𝗮𝗽𝗶. The title song, which translates to "Where did it hurt you?", was composed by both Tabu Ley and M'bilia Bel. The song won the award for the best song of 1982 in Zaire, and M'bilia Bel won the award for best newcomer. Other songs on the album such as Tabu Ley's "Lisanga ya Bambanda", "Kelhia", and Dino Vangu's "Quelle Mechancete" were big hits for Afrisa International. 
★ Mbilia Bel's songs continued to dominate the Congolese music scene, among them "𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗶 𝗡𝗮 𝗡𝗴𝗮𝗶 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝗮" ("This Husband of Mine"), composed by Tabu Ley and Roger Izeidi, an adaptation of a traditional song in Kikongo. 
In the song, M'bilia Bel praises her husband as being handsome and successful and stresses that even though he has the opportunity to choose from any of Kinshasa's beautiful women, he chose her. Other songs that dominated the charts during her reign in Afrisa included;
𝗕𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗮́ 𝘁𝗲́𝗿𝗿𝗲
𝗕𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗶 𝘀𝗼𝘆
𝗕𝗮 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗬𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗮
𝗞𝗲𝘆𝗻𝗮
𝗖𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮
𝗕𝗮𝗳𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗶
𝗡𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗶 𝗡𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗶
𝗕𝗮𝗷𝗲𝘂𝘅 𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗶𝗻
𝗣𝗮𝗸𝗮 𝗪𝗲𝘄𝗲
𝗕𝗼𝘆𝗮 𝗬𝗲
𝗬𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗮 𝗡𝗴𝗮𝗶
𝗦𝗵𝗮𝘄𝘂𝗿𝗶 𝗬𝗮𝗸𝗼
𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗮
𝗟𝗮 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗗'𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗙𝗲𝗺𝗺𝗲 
In 1987, Tabu Ley recruited another female artist to accompany M'bilia Bel. Kishila Ngoyi was known as "Faya Tess". It was with this new line-up that Afrisa embarked on a tour of East Africa that took in Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda, culminating in the album Nadina, which had Lingala and Swahili versions of the title song. The tour was well received. M'bilia Bel took center stage, overshadowing other Afrisa artists including Ndombe Opetum, who had returned from T.P OK Jazz. Upon their return to Kinshasa, rumours started surfacing about a rift between Tabu ley and M'bilia Bel. Both publicly denied having any problems when they were interviewed by journalists.
★M'bilia Bel quit the band late in early 1988 to embark on a solo career. She briefly utilized a Gabonese producer in Libreville before leaving for Paris, where she joined guitarist Rigo Star Bamundele. Her first album with Rigo Star, entitled Phénomène, was a huge success in Kinshasa as well as abroad. Subsequent releases such as Desolé, 8/10 Benedicta, Yalowa, and Exploration met with limited success.

★After her last album with Tabu Ley in 1988, she moved to Paris. There she started working with guitarist Rigo Star Bamundele
★Between 1989 and 1990, toured the United States, Europe, and West Africa.
★In 1996, M'bilia Bel decided to return home to try to regain her place in the Congolese music scene. This time she approached Maestro Suzy Kaseya, well-known for his work with another Congolese singer, Tshala Muana. In 2001, M'bilia Bel and Suzy released a CD of 10 tracks entitled Welcome, a huge success that won her a "Kora Award" for Best Female Vocalist of Central African. Tshala Muana received the same award in the same year.

𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐇𝐘
1982 Eswi Yo Wapi
1983 Faux Pas 
1984 Loyenghe 
1984 Ba Gerants Ya Mabal 
1985 Keyna/Cadence Mudanda 
1986 Boya Ye 
1987 Beyanga 
1987 Contre Ma Volonte 
1988 Phénomène 
1991 Bameli Soy 
1991 Désolée 
1993 Ironie (with Rigo Star)
1997 8/10/Benedicta/8/10 
1997 Yalowa 
2001 Welcome 
2004 Belissimo 
2011 Queen 
2014 Pantheon
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