Enga Province: History
Europeans—typically Australian gold prospectors—originally entered what is now Enga province from the east in the late 1920s, although the best-known exploration of Enga took place during the early 1930s when Mick Leahy and a party of men travelled from what later became Mount Hagen to the site of the future Wabag and then south through the Ambum Valley to what later became East Sepik.
On 24 May 2024, a landslide occurred affecting six villages in Maip Muritaka Rural LLG. It is estimated that over 670 people died in this disaster