Marshall Islands

At least 70 Marshallese have died in the United States mainland from Covid-19, according to a report complied by the Marshall Islands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Momentum is developing behind efforts for renewed attention to lingering problems related to the US nuclear weapons testing programme in the Marshall Islands.

Covid-19 exposure in Hawaii reduced this week's US Army repatriation group to the Marshall Islands from 15 to 11, according to health authorities in Majuro.

A Marshallese community worker in the US state of Arkansas is continuing to push for poultry plants to shut down, to try and arrest the spread of Covid-19.

A Spanish pilot, who missed his family after spending months on a boat in the Pacific, is facing illegal entry charges after he took off in a helicopter and landed in the Marshall Islands.

The Marshall Islands government is preparing a phased return of hundreds of citizens stranded abroad by Covid-19. Hundreds of Marshallese are still stranded in Hawaii, Guam and the US mainland...

The Marshall Islands copra makers have delivered since January a bumper crop to Majuro's coconut oil processing factory.

Covid-19 has turned into the perfect storm for thousands of Marshall Islanders living in the United States.

The Marshall Islands has extended its ban on inbound travel to the country for another month in an effort to maintain its coronavirus-free environment.

The Marshall Islands consul general, in northwest Arkansas in the United States, says the rate of Covid-19 infections in the community seems to be flattening.

Multiple guilty pleas by an American lawyer to illegal baby adoption-related criminal charges in the US have been hailed by the Marshall Islands attorney general as an example of results achieved…

Micronesian countries say they oppose a postponement of the appointment of a new Secretary-General for the Pacific Islands Forum. Audio

In the US state of Arkansas, Marshall Islanders make up just half a percent of the population, but they represent six percent of all Covid-19 deaths there.

The Marshall Islands Government is contemplating stopping outbound travel as ex-patriate communities in the United States are hard hit by Covid-19.

Marshallese have suffered half the Covid-19 deaths that have occurred to date in the northwest of the US state of Arkansas.

The Marshall Islands has extended its ban on incoming travellers, but repatriated nine Marshallese stranded in Pohnpei and allowed the first group of five essential workers to return.

While Covid-19 has now been confirmed in over 200 countries, the Republic of the Marshall Islands remains one of a diminishing number of countries to have prevented the virus from reaching its shores.

Two Marshall Islanders who drifted at sea for 42 days, and seven others, have returned home as part of the first group to do so since a March travel ban was put in place.

Two Marshallese men who survived a six-week, 1,640km drift are well and awaiting repatriation home from Weno, the capital island of Chuuk state in the FSM.