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Kiribati (/ ˈ k ɪr ɪ b æ s / ⓘ KIRR-i-bass, [10] Gilbertese:), officially the Republic of Kiribati (Gilbertese: Ribaberiki Kiribati), [11] [12] [3] is an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. Its permanent population is over 119,000 as of the 2020 census, and more than half live on Tarawa atoll.
By that time, 33 percent of the nation's residents had been fully vaccinated against infection. In January 2022, a group of Kiribati citizens who had been living and travelling abroad as missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when the pandemic began returned to Kiribati on a chartered plane. Despite negative tests for ...
Erika Taeang is an artist and teacher from Kiribati. In 2020 Finlayson Park School in Auckland became the first school in New Zealand to set up a Kiribati language unit, where Taeang was employed as the teacher. [1] [2] Twenty students were initially enrolled. [3]
Richard Randell, married to an I-Kiribati woman, fluent in the Gilbertese language, advocated for them to Protestant missionaries led by Randell's close friend Hiram Bingham. Randell cast the foreigners as men who committed atrocities against I-Kiribati and influenced Baiteke against missionaries.
The Kiribati New Star is a private weekly owned by Ieremia Tabai; another private weekly is the Kiribati Times. The Fishermen’s Association operates a weekly newspaper, Tarakai. [4] The privately owned Kiribati Independent "is printed fortnightly with a circulation of 500", primarily in the capital (South Tarawa). It also operates a website ...
The uniqueness of Kiribati when compared with other forms of Pacific Island dance is its emphasis on the outstretched arms of the dancer and the sudden birdlike movement of the head. The Frigate bird (Fregata minor) on the Kiribati flag refers to this bird-like style of Kiribati dancing. Most dances are in the standing or sitting position with ...
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Kiribati became a member of the World Bank in 1986. On 1 March 2011, the World Bank announced a Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) for Kiribati, which is structured around the themes of: (i) addressing the existential threat posed by climate change; and, (ii) mitigating the effects of geographic isolation.