Two Category 4 cyclones hit Vanuatu within 72 hours in early March.
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Disease surveillance by the WHO shows mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever are rising sharply.
While work schemes offer Pacific Islanders economic opportunities, critics say they exacerbate labour shortages at home.
Distrust of COVID-19 vaccine in Papua New Guinea linked to reduction in children receiving more general vaccinations.
Officials say the facility will provide crucial income despite causing war and pollution the last time it was open.
Northern Mariana Islands says proposal for wastewater from stricken plant to be stored on site must be considered.
Tensions high after key independence parties boycott the vote because of COVID and warn they’ll challenge the result.
Nations most vulnerable to climate change say rich world must step up, meet goal to limit temperature rise to 1.5C.
Court ruling due on Monday could help resolve political crisis that saw Fiame Naomi Mata’afa sworn in under a tent.
‘Different mood’ in Samoa as a former deputy challenges Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi’s 23-year rule.
