(MENAFN) Australia has begun deporting foreign detainees to Nauru under a contentious new agreement with the small Pacific island nation, sparking widespread criticism from rights groups and opposition lawmakers. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke...
(MENAFN) Australia has committed to a US$1.6 billion payment over the next 30 years to relocate hundreds of migrants to the remote Pacific island of Nauru, according to government officials who disclosed financial details of a previously...
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Sept. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A stateless person has become a Nauruan citizen under an innovative citizenship program that helps fund economic and climate resilience. The Kuwaiti national’s citizenship granted through...
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Aug. 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Republic of Nauru has welcomed its first new citizens under the government’s Economic and Climate Resilience Citizenship Program, announced at COP29 late last year. Nauru, ranked the...
Nauru Airlines simplifies complex operations across multi-stop routes, cargo flights, and charter services with Ink Innovation’s cloud-based platform. ALICANTE, SPAIN, June 3, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Nauru Airlines, the national airline of...
In a landmark move to safeguard its cultural and natural heritage, Nauru held its first national consultation meeting on the World Heritage Convention with the support of UNESCO. A dynamic interactive session on 23 May 2025 brought together...
The Government of Nauru and TMC’s subsidiary, Nauru Ocean Resources Inc. (NORI), signed a revised Sponsorship Agreement updating the terms of their agreement signed in 2017 The President of Nauru welcomes the new agreement which will ensure that...
BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov. 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Government of the Republic of Nauru unveiled its groundbreaking Nauru Economic and Climate Resilience Citizenship Program at the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 29) in Baku...
In an extraordinary display of goodwill and international friendship, representatives from the village of Vaiala in the Vaimauga district, Samoa, will travel to Nauru on January 29,2025, to attend the country’s Independence Day celebrations on...
HONIARA, Solomon Islands – The Pacific Labour Mobility Annual Meeting (PLMAM) 2025 officially opened this morning in Honiara, Solomon Islands, bringing together Pacific labour mobility stakeholders from across the Pacific and beyond under the...
Another two men from the NZYQ-affected cohort have been deported to Nauru in a process human rights advocates say is shrouded in secrecy. Sources told Guardian Australia a Sudanese national, who was detained in the Yongah Hill centre just outside...
From the Publisher's Desk By Mar-Vic Cagurangan Nauru, the world’s smallest island republic, is emerging as a model of fiscal prudence in the Pacific region. Determined to take charge of its future, Nauru established the Intergenerational Trust...
In a recent Daily Maverick opinion piece, Mmusi Maimane warned that the quiet replacement of the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) board signals a deep crisis in governance and public accountability. Read more: Much greater oversight,...
Human rights lawyers have moved to intervene in the High Court case of a man facing deportation to Nauru, arguing the government should be barred from deporting people to places where they face death or serious harm. The appeal case concerns the...
The federal government has refused to release a translation of a public interview in which Nauru's president discusses the potentially multi-billion-dollar deal to take members of the so-called NZYQ cohort, because doing so would "likely" damage...
Political parties and human rights groups have blasted "secrecy" over the Albanese government's deal to send hundreds of former detainees to Nauru following the first deportation to the Pacific island. Little is known about the arrival of the...
Human rights organisations have condemned the Albanese Government’s first deportation to Nauru under its new secret offshore deal, calling it a shameful breach of Australia’s values of fairness, equality and justice. This is the first known...
In late August, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke quietly visited Nauru to sign a $408 million deal to allow Australia to deport potentially hundreds of migrants and refugees to the prison island. While official figures have not been revealed,...
