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26 April - Australian-born High Court justice David Lambourne is ordered deported from Kiribati following a long-running legal battle with the latter's government. [1] He voluntarily leaves the country on 16 May. [2] 14 August - 2024 Kiribati parliamentary election (first round): Kiribati islanders vote for the 45 members of the House of ...
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Kiribati. 20 January – The country announces a curfew and mandatory face masks after 36 passengers on a charter flight from Fiji test positive for COVID-19 upon arrival. The plane was the first international commercial flight to land in the country since March 2020. Kiribati reopened its borders on January 10. [1]
On 22 August, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration announced that all scheduled diplomatic visits to the country were to be suspended or cancelled until 2025, citing concerns over their effect on the formation of a new government after the election and inability to accommodate visitors while the process was ongoing.
On 30 September 2024 the manifestos of three of the candidates were published. [14] [15] It was later reported that candidate Riteta Iorome had withdrawn.[16]Opposition figures, including former president Ieremia Tabai, called for a boycott of the election, in protest at the exclusion of opposition candidates. [17]
27 January – The New Zealand Government reviews its bilateral aid programme to Kiribati after Kiribati President Taneti Maamau cancelled three pre-arranged meetings including one scheduled for mid January 2025. The NZ Government had wanted to discuss how NZ$102 million worth of aid money allocated to Kiribati between 2021 and 2024 was being ...
By 2022, he was the Senior Assistant Secretary in the MCIA. [4] In 2024, Kaotitaake ran for election to the House of Assembly to represent Tabuaeran, and won one of two seats (along with Matanga Aran), receiving 665 votes. [5] [6] He ran as a member of the Tobwaan Kiribati Party (TKP) which won a supermajority in the legislature. [7]
This page lists the individual Kiribati year pages. It only references years after 1979, when the country gained independence. It only references years after 1979, when the country gained independence.
Year Venue Date 1: 2005: Bangkok, Thailand: September 12–19, 2005 2: 2008: Nanjing, China: April 4–9, 2008 3: 2009: Doha, Qatar: December 16–22, 2009 4: 2011 ...