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Prolonged drought in Micronesia with dry weather expected to continue until July
22 Apr 2024Extreme droughts in the Western Pacific region are expected to persist over the next three months. Audio
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New opportunities open to Pacific AFL players
23 Apr 2024New opportunities are opening up for young Pacific people who are keen to play Australian rules football.
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PNG looks for solutions to worsening gun crime
22 Apr 2024Papua New Guinea is considering looking at overseas solutions, perhaps from even as far as Africa, to find solutions to its gun crime problem. Audio
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American Samoa says PIF membership still on the table
22 Apr 2024The American Samoa government has rubbished reports about the US shooting down its PIF membership hopes.
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Pacific negotiators 'need to be more strategic' at UN plastic meeting
22 Apr 2024Palau's chief negotiator shares her thoughts on the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution.
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Pasifika Sipoti wrap
22 Apr 2024A wrap of sport that took place from around the region, including rugby, rugby league, football and swimming.
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Pacific news in brief for April 22
22 Apr 2024A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including Fiji's immigration services experiencing major delays due to a large increase in applications.
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More than half of Solomon Islands election results in as counting continues
22 Apr 2024Manasseh Sogavare's Our Party is in the lead having won 32 percent of counted votes. So far, two female MPs have been elected and three former prime ministers may be in the running for the top job.
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Baron Waqa negotiating - No start date for incoming PIF boss yet
The incoming head of the Pacific region's main political body is yet to sign his contract, almost six months after the 2023 Pacific Islands Forum Leaders meeting in Rarotonga.
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New Caledonia's nickel French 'pact' in limbo
19 Apr 2024The French-proposed "pact" to salvage New Caledonia's beleaguered nickel industry is still in limbo as the local Congress has decided to re-examine the whole document through a "special committee".
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French Pacific news in brief
20 Apr 2024A round-up of news in brief from the French Pacific region, including the arrest of a French Polynesian dancer on drug charges.
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Bougainville guns: Concerns stolen firearms continue being used for illegal activities
19 Apr 2024Hundreds of high-powered firearms - allegedly stolen from weapons disposal sites - are still in use today, the police chief in the autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville says.
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Queen's Gambit - Manasseh Sogavare re-elected in Solomon Islands
22 Apr 2024The incumbent prime minister has been re-elected in the East Choiseul constituency, opening move in the political chess match to form the next government of Solomon Islands.
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Strong connections between Māori and Pacific important step for Tiriti-based constitution
18 Apr 2024Opinion - Restrengthening connections between Pacific tauiwi (settlers) and Māori is an important step towards transforming Aotearoa's constitution, to honour te Tiriti o Waitangi.
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Pacific news in brief for April 19
19 Apr 2024A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including Papua New Guinea's public sector workfroce beholden to loan sharks.
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Pasifika Sipoti wrap
19 Apr 2024A wrap of sport that took place this week from around the region, including rugby, rugby league, soccer, tennis, swimming.
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'Tender ballots', counting venue issues: Solomon Islands election results coming in at a trickle
19 Apr 2024Human error and venue complications hampered the first day of counting in Solomon Islands but a steady stream of provisional results are expected today as more counting centres come online.
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Preview: Unbeaten Hurricanes face partisan Drua crowd
Fijian Drua coach Mick Byrne said the team will need to focus on their own game and do the basics right.
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Tongans remain vulnerable two years after volcano
Live and Learn Tonga says more people are struggling and there was a need for assistance to be refocused to urban areas in the Kingdom. Audio
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'Counting after verification' in Solomon Islands, election chief says
18 Apr 2024The counting process for Solomon Islands' joint election is only just getting underway as the retrieval of ballot boxes from polling stations all across the country continues.
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Samoa on the brink of declaring a dengue outbreak
The health chief has confirmed about 80 people have been affected by the mosquite-borne disease and number of cases are going up.
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Women discuss economic roadblocks in Nauru
"We have been treating gender equality as a women's issue only for far too long," SPC principal strategic lead for Pacific women and girls, Mereseini Rakuita, says.
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Our Oceans Conference: Pacific leaders advocate for climate action
18 Apr 2024The 9th Our Oceans Conference in Greece brings together government delegations from around the world to discuss challenges affecting their countries, including efforts to mitigate climate change.
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Pacific news in brief for April 18
18 Apr 2024A round-up of news in brief from around the region, including New Zealand's Speaker of the House leading a delegation to the Cook Islands and Niue.
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