Stories by Giff Johnson

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.

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.

The Marshall Islands government has expressed increasing concerns over hard drug use, with the Justice Minister announcing the formation of a taskforce to deal with the issue.

Two of three Marshall Islands fishermen lost at sea since April 2 washed into the Federated States of Micronesia, weak but alive after a 42-day drift on the open ocean.

Port management and control of the multi-billion dollar tuna industry in the Pacific islands is most effectively developed through hands-on trial and error says expert.

The Marshall Islands government is preparing to give one-time payments to Marshallese stranded abroad as a result of a Covid-19 travel ban on incoming arrivals.

Five Marshall Islanders who survived a nine-day open ocean drift are reported safe after their small boat floated into a remote atoll Thursday.

The Marshall Islands government has extended its ban on all incoming travellers for another month because it regards Covid-19 "a national threat".

Pacific islanders living in the United States have an infection rate two to three times the average in at least four American states, according to US data.

Copra makers in the Marshall Islands produced one of their biggest crops in history during the first quarter of 2020.

The Marshall Islands has taken the unprecedented action of closing off all airline travel into the country for a two-week period in an effort to prevent importation of the Covid-19 coronarivus .

Two Marshall Islanders died from dengue fever this week at Majuro hospital emphasising the severity of the outbreak now in its eighth month.

The Marshall Islands issued a travel advisory Friday night banning travelers coming directly from the People's Republic of China, where the coronavirus originated.

In the wake of confirmed measles cases in Kiribati and Hawaii, as well as ongoing spread in many islands in the South Pacific, the Marshall Islands has tightened its measles prevention requirements…

The Marshall Islands and PNG are the worst ranked Pacific in the latest US human trafficking report.

A large Taiwanese fishing vessel was successfully pulled off a reef in the Marshall Islands capital, Majuro, late on Friday, over a week after it ran aground.

Marshall Islanders have been deported from the United States at greater rate over recent years.

Victims of US nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands have asked Washington for climate resettlement action