カテゴリー: Kiribati
Around the Cook Islands, the world’s two most powerful countries are exploring the possibility of deep-sea mining for critical mineralsDeep below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, the seafloor is dotted with clusters of brown and black rocks, each cont…
Calls for reform to allow people across the Pacific threatened by climate crisis to more easily migrate, particularly to New ZealandClimate and migration experts are calling for urgent action to create legal pathways for people displaced by the climate…
Supporters of the UN treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons gathered this month in New York to call for wider ratificationGrowing up in the Pacific nation of Kiribati, Oemwa Johnson heard her grandfather’s stories about nuclear explosions he witnessed in t…
Analyst says while USAid supports hundreds of jobs, the most significant damage from Donald Trump’s cuts will be to US relations with the PacificThe dismantling of USAid by president Donald Trump is having a ripple effect across the Pacific as people w…
Thinktank’s report says Beijing has emerged from Covid-induced lull with a ‘more competitive, politically targeted model’ of engagement in the regionChina has renewed efforts to curry favour in Pacific island nations, a new report has found, after char…
Climate change, living costs and China ties in focus as president Taneti Maamau seeks to extend his tenure in the Pacific countryPolls opened in the Pacific country of Kiribati on Wednesday, after an election campaign dominated by the cost of living, r…
Guardian analysis shows web of agreements between Pacific countries and Australia, US and China, as experts raise concerns over rising militarisationAs competition for influence in the Pacific region intensifies, analysis by the Guardian has mapped a v…
Two countries said their police chiefs were unable to attend video meeting chaired by Chinese and Solomon Islands ministersChina said it held a video meeting to discuss police cooperation with a group of Pacific island nations on Tuesday, however at le…
Banaba in the central Pacific is a microcosm of what has happened to this planet. It’s a place that cannot be brought back into balance without focused and collaborative careBefore it is lost is series of essays from the Pacific islandsSome years ago, …
Lowy Institute’s Pacific Aid Map charts thousands of projects and activities from 67 donor entities, including Australia and the USChina is funnelling aid to Kiribati and Solomon Islands, while its overall spending in the Pacific region is in decline, …
Tetiro Semilota appointed from within ranks of government that fired country’s most senior judge, another from high court and whole court of appealThe separation of powers crisis in Kiribati escalated on Friday, with the Pacific country’s attorney gene…
The decision worsens the constitutional crisis plaguing the Pacific country, which also suspended a high court judge last monthKiribati has been left without a high-level court after the government ordered the suspension of the three sitting judges of …
Kiribati’s court of appeal said government’s latest bid to deport high court justice David Lambourne on national security grounds was ‘far-fetched’Kiribati’s constitutional crisis is no closer to resolution, with the country’s court of appeal criticisi…
David Lambourne, who serves on the high court of Kiribati, was detained on Thursday after a failed attempt by the Kiribati government to deport himKiribati’s Australian-born high court justice David Lambourne was released from immigration detention on …
Judge David Lambourne was detained after a failed bid to deport him, which he called a ‘devastating assault on the rule of law’ in KiribatiKiribati is in the midst of a constitutional crisis after its government detained one of its most senior judges, …