Kiribati

The Kiribati Government has extended its state of disaster by another month as the remote Pacific Island nation's Covid-19 infections climbs to almost 400.

The Kiribati government has extended its lockdown of South Tarawa, Betio and Buota for another seven days due to a rapid increase in the number of Covid-19 cases.

The Kiribati Health Ministry has confirmed that the atoll island has surpassed 100 Covid-19 cases after it recorded 37 new positive infections on Wednesday.

From this afternoon Kiribati, which was Covid-free until just days ago, is going into lockdown, with the Covid-19 virus now in the community.

An oceans' expert is supportive of the Kiribati Government's plan to open the Phoenix Island Protected Area, or the PIPA, to commercial fishing.

One of the directors of the Phoenix Island Protected Area Trust says the marine sanctuary is a conservation treasure for the world.

An opposition MP in Kiribati says the government plans to open an internationally valuable marine sanctuary because it needs the revenue to pay for extravagant election promises.

Conservation International, one of the groups involved in the formation of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area, is hoping Kiribati will maintain the marine sanctuary.

A marine scientist in Hawaii says the Phoenix Islands Protected Area is incredibly strategic in the Pacific, especially in this age of climate change.

The Kiribati government has opened its UNESCO World Heritage marine park to commercial fishing in order to bolster revenue.

As the people of the Kiribati island of Banaba again plead for a reliable water supply, New Zealand says it stands ready to help.

Reports from the remote Kiribati island of Banaba say residents are again without clean water, just months after two de-salination plants were installed.

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China has dramatically scaled back its aid to the Pacific in the past two years.

The leaders of the five independent Micronesian states are planning to set up a formal secretariat on Nauru.

The government of Kiribati says it now has enough Covid-19 vaccine doses to inoculate all eligible persons in the country. This comes after the donation today of 90,000 doses of...