Bougainville in Transition
By Dr Naihuwo Ahai PhD, Governance and Development Specialist, Buka
It is now 35 years since the Bougainville crisis erupted and 23 years after...
Amid Illicit drug boom, Is the Pacific’s regional security architecture fit for purpose?
By Jose Sousa-Santos
In January, Fiji police seized more than four tonnes of methamphetamine during two raids in Nadi, marking one of the largest...
Illicit Drugs Are Undermining Pacific Security
By Jose Sousa-Santos
A quick succession of drug busts in Fiji earlier this year — the seizure of 3.5 tons of crystal methamphetamine followed by...
Free(r) movement at the Forum
By Sadhana Sen and Stephen Howes
The annual Pacific Islands Forum Economic Ministers Meeting (FEMM) always has a wide-ranging agenda. This year the FEMM,...
Tips for Tonga: Agenda setting for Pacific leaders’ meeting
New Caledonia, climate finance, U.S territories and lack of banking services – key issues when leaders meet this month.
Commentary by Tess Newton Cain
For...
Can Pacific’s Finance-Economy Ministers Declare a Code Red?
By Dr Satyendra Prasad
The Finance Ministers of G20 met earlier this week in Brazil. Collectively, these G20 countries account for over 80 percent of...
Pacific media watchdog launches inaugural survey of media freedoms in the Pacific: For us....
The experiences and challenges facing Pacific journalists attempting to uphold freedom of expression and information across the region, will be captured for the first...
Pacific Islands Forum Chair Mark Brown backflip to support Japan’s on-going dumping of nuclear...
By Brittany Nawaqatabu
Today marks the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 and the 39th anniversary of the Treaty of Rarotonga...
Pacific Islands region waste management challenges under the microscope at Fourth Clean Pacific Roundtable
Officials and delegates at the Fourth Clean Pacific Roundtable (4CPRT) have been urged to develop tailor-made waste disposal and management measures that are of...
Migration with dignity? Kiribati swaps escape to purchased Fiji plot for sea walls to...
As sea levels rise, the tiny Pacific nation has tussled between leaving for an undeveloped estate in Fiji or scrapping for climate finance to...
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Pacific leaders converge in Fiji for key Troika talks
Pacific leaders have arrived in Suva ahead of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Troika Meeting, with Palau President Surangel S. Whipps Jr and Solomon...
Alarm sounded on radioactive risk from deep sea mining
Plucking minerals from the ocean floor risks disturbed radioactive material entering the marine food chain, an anti-deep sea mining group warns.
The Deep-Sea Mining Campaign...
Fiji Military Commander Kalouniwai given option to extend term, PM Rabuka reveals
Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka revealed that the Constitutional Offices Commission had decided to offer Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) Commander Major-General Ro Jone...