PRIME Minister (PM) Jeremiah Manele has endorsed the Pacific Policing Initiative (PPI) in-principle based on a Solomon ...

The Pacific's top regional body has denied it has buckled to Chinese pressure by deleting a line about Taiwan in a communique ...

An Australian plan to improve policing in the Pacific deals with just one element of the islands’ crime and conflict problem ...

When anti-government riots erupted in the Solomon Islands in late 2021, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea sent soldiers and police officers to help restore order. The final ...

This started with the Nouméa Accord in 1998 and culminated in three successive New Caledonian referendums on self-determination from France in 2018, 2020, and 2021, in which the “No” vote won ...

The mission, comprising PIF chair and Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka and Solomon Islands ... the third referendum in 2021, which they deemed ...

Sogavare Says Government Will Assist Business Houses Destroyed by Riots Prime Minister Manasseh ... SICCI Announce Hosts for 2021 Business Excellence Awards (BEA) The Solomon Islands Chamber of ...

Sogavare Says Government Will Assist Business Houses Destroyed by Riots Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare ... the national government on Friday 19th November 2021. The UN Development Programme in ...

On 25 November, a day after the riots in Honiara, Australia announced it would deploy police and military personnel following a request for assistance from the government of the Solomon Islands. This ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Solomon Islands lawmakers elected former Foreign ... his eligibility to become prime minister. More serious riots resulted in arson and looting in Honiara in November 2021 ...

France’s handling of pro-independence riots that engulfed the New Caledonian capital ... There is no biased or incorrect feedback in those mere facts.” Senior Solomon Islands diplomat Collin Beck said ...