Kiribati

An exhibition referencing issues facing Kiribati including climate change, over-population and threats to traditional cultures is touring New Zealand.

The Kiribati government says a boat carrying aid supplies for outer islands worst affected by Cyclone Pam found there was much more damage than initially reported.

The Kiribati government says a boat will be leaving this afternoon with aid supplies for the three islands most affected by Cyclone Pam.

The President of Kiribati says he fears his country won't be able to carry the cost of the damage caused by natural disasters.

The Kiribati Red Cross is struggling to deal with residents in the southern island of Tamana who are homeless after Cyclone Pam.

The Kiribati Weather Service says this week's spring tides could be particularly crippling, coming after damaging tides last month and the impact of Cyclone Pam.

The Kiribati government says it is receiving reports of severe damage on three of the nation's southern islands following high winds and sea surges due to Cyclone Pam.

The Kiribati government says work is continuing around the clock to repair a vital causeway, but bad weather and high tides are hampering efforts.

Progress has been made overnight on repairs on a main causeway in Kiribati that links two of the most populated parts of Tarawa atoll.

A distribution company on Betio in Kiribati says some food supplies in South Tarawa have already started to run low due to transport restrictions on a damaged causeway.

Government ministries, businesses and schools are being affected by the near collapse of part of a causeway in Kiribati.

Reports from Kiribati says the causeway linking the two most populated parts of Tarawa atoll was closed yesterday because it was no longer safe.

The national disaster management office in Kiribati says it expects damaging waves will become more frequent. Audio

A United States company has filed a lawsuit against Air Kiribati accusing it of fraud and misrepresentation.

Disaster officials in Kiribati say more permanent solutions are needed to prevent damage from spring tides and flooding.

When the Parties to the Nauru Agreement meet this week in Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia, Tuvalu and Kiribati will want to complete a deal on local crews working on foreign fishing vessels…

The Kiribati Public Health Department says the damage to one of only two hospitals on South Tarawa is so severe, it will take at least a fortnight to repair.

Lawyers representing Kiribati are suing an American company known only as CAMMS for failing to deliver a Twin Otter aircraft for which the island nation has reportedly paid more than 4 million US…

The Kiribati national disaster management office says it is working to repair one of the country's hospitals badly damaged by spring tides.

The Kiribati High Commission in Fiji says one Fijian sailor has been found and another is still missing after what is being reported as a fatal accident over the weekend in the Phoenix islands in…