Kiribati

Incumbent President Taneti Maamau has retained his seat in Onotoa, according to unofficial results after the first round of the polls on Wednesday.

Campaigning, which has been going on for months, has "become more intense" and "the incumbent candidates seeking re-election [are] really going out", a Kiribati journalist says.

A local resident in the capital Tarawa told RNZ Pacific on the eve of the election is an "important moment" for people of Micronesian nation.

The soaring cost of living and signs the government's struggling to meet its obligations are dominant discussion points going into next Wednesday's first poll in Kiribati. Audio

Kiribati journalist Rimon Rimon speaks to RNZ Pacific's senior journalist Don Wiseman ahead of the 2024 Kiribati elections next week.

Over 100 candidates are to contest the Kiribati election in a fortnight hoping to get elected into atoll island nations the 44-seat parliament.

The nation has experienced a turbulent last four years, choosing to switch diplomatic allegiance to China over Taiwan, pulling out of and then returning to the Pacific Islands Forum. Audio

The people of Kiribati, celebrating their 45th Independence Anniversary this weekend, will go to the polls next month to elect a new legislature, the Maneaba ni Maungatabu.

The Australian newswire service, AAP, has reported Australian officials are being frozen out of Kiribati as the country is courted by China.

A Kiribati judge, who has been battling a government determined to have him removed from his post, has now left the country. David Lambourne, for nearly four years, has faced...

Kiribati's first president Sir Ieremia Tabai says the decision by the government to deport Australian-born Judge David Lambourne from the country is "a farce". Audio

An Australian-born judge in Kiribati could well face deportation later this week after a tribunal ruling that he should be removed from his post.

An expatriate judge in Kiribati hopes he will get a chance to make his case on Tuesday over his controversial suspension three years ago.

The US has cautioned Pacific nations against assistance from Chinese security forces after Reuters reported that Chinese police are working in Kiribati, a neighbour of Hawaii.

The Kiribati government and New Zealand's Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) have joined forces in their efforts to improve the health outcomes for i-Kiribati people.

A United Nations Special Rapporteur has castigated the Kiribati government for its treatment of judges and the country's judicial crisis. Audio

American marines, alongside the Kiribati government and the US ambassador to Kiribati co-hosted the 80th annual commemoration of the Battle of Tarawa at the Betio Sports Complex on Tarawa Atoll.