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Kiribati

July 2022

  • Kiribati’s president, Taneti Maamau

    The Pacific project
    Kiribati withdraws from Pacific Islands Forum in blow to regional body

    President says it will not be attending forum because of failure to address concerns of Micronesian countries

June 2022

  • Justice David Lambourne (right), pictured with Sir John Baptist Muri, former chief justice of the high court of Kiribati

    The Pacific project
    Kiribati faces constitutional crisis after government suspends both high court justices

  • Guardian-class patrol boat

    Serious defects discovered in patrol boats Australia supplied to Pacific Islands

May 2022

  • Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum Henry Puna (2nd R) holds a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (3rd L) in Fiji's capital city of Suva as part of Wang’s marathon tour of the region.

    The Pacific project
    China’s foreign minister tells Pacific leaders ‘don’t be too anxious’ after they reject regional security pact

  • Wang Yi and Manasseh Sogavare

    The Pacific project
    China’s foreign minister to visit Solomon Islands amid push for more deals with Pacific countries

  • Penny Wong

    Australia to stand with Pacific islands on climate crisis and ‘respect’ region, Penny Wong says

  • Former president of Kiribati Anote Tong

    Former Kiribati president slams Australia’s ‘politicisation’ of climate action and power of fossil fuel lobby

January 2022

  • Health workers roll out the Covid vaccination campaign in the village of Tuanaimato in Apia, Samoa.

    The Pacific project
    Fear and dread: Covid-free for two years, Pacific islands experience explosion in case numbers

    The virus has swept into remote island countries, sowing panic and confusion
  • The entry bridge into the home village of the Kiribati quarantine centre security guard is sealed off.

    The Pacific project
    Two-thirds of passengers on first flight to Covid-free Kiribati diagnosed with virus

    Island nation set to impose lockdown next week after virus escaped from quarantine centre
  • Kurt Campbell was addressing Washington’s Center for Strategic and International Studies.

    Pacific faces ‘strategic surprise’, says US official, alluding to China

    US Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell says bases and other agreements could be on the cards

December 2021

  • A man smiles while hugging his daughters

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Collateral damage’: tortuous ordeal of the seafarers left marooned by Covid

  • Nurse Albert O’Connor outside Tungaru central hospital in Kiribati

    The Pacific project
    ‘There is just a lake with crocodiles!’: hope and homkesickness for Kiribati nurses in the outback

November 2021

  • Justice David Lambourne (right), pictured with Sir John Baptist Muri, former chief justice of the High Court of Kiribati in 2019

    The Pacific project
    Kiribati’s attempts to keep stranded Australian judge out of the country ruled unconstitutional

  • One quarter of people surveyed across the Pacific also reported being offered a bribe for their vote in the last five years.

    The Pacific project
    One-third of people in Pacific paid a bribe in the last year, says corruption report

  • A fishing vessel in the coastal waters off Tarawa, the capital of Kiribati, whose economy is hugely dependent on fishing.

    The Pacific project
    Kiribati to open one of world’s largest marine protected areas to commercial fishing

  • An abandoned house that is affected by sea-water during high-tides stands next to a small lagoon near the village of Tangintebu on South Tarawa in the central Pacific island nation of Kiribati.

    The Pacific project
    Australia’s commitment to coal is putting my country of Kiribati in danger

    Anote Tong

July 2021

  • Zsuzsa Darab Guardian portrait of Kinaua Biribo 014

    The Pacific project
    ‘She can do it’: Kiribati Olympic judo hopeful wants to combat domestic violence

  • An elderly woman wades through sea water that flooded her village in Kiribati

    Forget GDP, ‘vulnerability index best gauges aid’ to small islands

June 2021

  • Eritara Aati Kaierua’s wife Tekarara, with their four children Robert, Aatii, Elizabeth and Tutu at his grave in Tarawa, Kiribati. The family have been left without their father after he was murdered on a fishing boat. Murder, fishing, over fishing.

    Pacific plunder
    Death at sea: the fisheries inspectors who never came home

  • Roubena Ritata sits on a rock on Banaba

    Pacific plunder
    The island with no water: how foreign mining destroyed Banaba

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