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Vanuatu's Anna Naupa (left) has been appointed as the new Melanesian Spearhead Group Director-General
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Prime Minister-elect Matthew Wale
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Ousted Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele
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Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele
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"Without cartoonists, power goes unchecked"
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Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele
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Invoking the Pacific's Biketawa Declaration
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Pacific Forum responds to current global fuel and energy challenges

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Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele
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China and the Solomon Islands media
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China’s growing grip on the fragile Solomon Islands media sector

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Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele
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Solomons PM refuses to convene parliament amid political crisis

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March 19, 2026
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Solomon Islands National University's vice-chancellor Dr Transform Aqorau
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Solomon Islands academic warns Pacific economies at risk from US-Israel-Iran conflict

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Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
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Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
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Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

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