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Samoa PM suspends country’s only daily newspaper from press briefings amid dispute over coverage
Prime minister has accused the Samoa Observer of inaccurate reporting during his eight-week medical stay in Ne…
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‘Humanitarian’ visa must be created for Pacific Islanders displaced by climate crisis, experts say
Calls for reform to allow people across the Pacific threatened by climate crisis to more easily migrate, parti…
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Rise in dengue fever outbreaks across the Pacific driven by the climate crisis, experts say
Samoa, Fiji and Tonga among the worst affected amid warning the disease and others will become ‘more common an…
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Samoa suffering energy crisis after weeks of power outages
Pacific country this week declared state of emergency over power cuts that have caused huge disruption to busi…
- Asia Pacific, Kiribati, Pacific islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga, US foreign policy, USAid, World news
Explainer: what will the withdrawal of USAid mean for the Pacific?
Analyst says while USAid supports hundreds of jobs, the most significant damage from Donald Trump’s cuts will …
- Asia Pacific, Climate crisis, Fiji, Pacific islands, Pacific leaders: in their words, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, US foreign policy, US news
Leaders in the Pacific raise alarm over ‘direct impact’ of Trump’s climate retreat and aid freeze
Samoa’s prime minister says US withdrawal from Paris climate agreement is ‘very disappointing’ and puts the su…
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Samoa’s prime minister criticises RFK Jr’s vaccine views after deadly measles outbreak
In an exclusive interview, Fiame Naomi Mataʻafa tells the Guardian she is surprised at Trump’s pick for health…
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Vanuatu’s push for legal protection from climate change wins crucial support
1,500 civil society groups from 130 countries back Vanuatu’s move to seek protection from the international co…
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Vanuatu government launches inquiry into labour schemes after testimony from workers in Australia
The inquiry comes after Vanuatu seasonal workers made allegations of bullying and exploitative working conditi…
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Elon Musk offers to send terminals to restore internet to volcano-hit Tonga
Tesla billionaire says he could send Starlink terminals via SpaceX to Pacific island nation where communicatio…
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‘Absolutely amazing’: Tongan man swept away by tsunami stayed afloat for 24 hours
Lisala Folau climbed a tree on his home island before being washed away and eventually managing to reach the c…
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In Samoa we are born into land, climate change threatens to take it away from us
Everyone in the Pacific has stories of times the climate crisis hit our lives. For me, it is the birth of my d…
- Asia Pacific, Coronavirus, Infectious diseases, New Zealand, Pacific islands, Science, Vaccines and immunisation, World news
Inflatable dinghies and Zoom medical training: how a remote Pacific atoll got Pfizer
Tokelau, one of the most inaccessible atolls in the world, can only be reached by small boat, but received box…
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Samoa’s ruling party faces strongest election challenge in 20 years
The second-longest serving prime minister in the world is being challenged by his former deputySamoa’s ruling …
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‘We had no paper, no pens, but we had our bodies’: the sacred and symbolic in Pasifika tattoos | Lagipoiva Cherelle
The New Zealand foreign minister’s moko has become international news, but beyond an identifier, our tatau are…