It is not every day that the prospect of a new country materialises. The last to be born was South Sudan in July 2011, when ...

Approval by the government is yet to be granted, but it’s thought independence could be achieved by the end of 2027, ...

Upon Independence, Sir Francis was the first Member of Parliament for Rannonga/Simbo Constituency. He represented the ...

The US' new and seemingly erratic foreign policy has sent out waves across the Pacific Ocean — to the Chuuk islands in Micronesia, where local independence ... such as the Solomon Islands ...

In 2024, Toroama told BenarNews he would be seeking observer status at the subregional MSG – grouping PNG, Fiji, Solomon ...

Samoa and the Solomon Islands. It’s the same in the Caribbean, where the French islands have three times the per capita GDP of nearby ex-British islands that chose independence. Likewise in the ...

The only other alternative, according to Asor, is an economic relationship with China, which is already ramping up its influence in other Pacific states such as the Solomon ... issue of independence ...