Tag: Ralph Regenvanu

By Stephen Wright in Kingston, Jamaica Vanuatu has taken a leading role in a bloc of nations fighting to keep marine environment protection on the...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Cook Islands Prime Minister and Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) chair Mark Brown has written to the president of the...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist A former Tuvalu prime minister says while the New Zealand government's oil and gas plans show it is concerned...

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor, and Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Vanuatu's Prime Minister Sato Kilman has been voted out through a motion-of-no-confidence...

By Len Garae in Port Vila The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) has failed West Papua, says a Vanuatu government champion of West Papuan self-determination. Minister for...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Vanuatu's Minister of Climate Change warns "there's going to be a lot of hardship" for people waiting for their...

By Len Garae in Port Vila Former Vanuatu Prime Minister Joe Natuman says allowing Indonesia -- by former Prime Minister Sato Kilman -- into the...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific reporter, and Hilaire Bule, RNZ correspondent in Port Vila Ishmael Kalsakau was elected today unopposed as the 13th Prime Minister...

RNZ Pacific The results of Vanuatu's snap election have been released, but it is not clear who has come out on top. The official results have...

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific journalist The president of Vanuatu has dissolved the country's Parliament just over halfway through the current four-year-term. President Nikenike Vurobaravu signed...

By Koroi Hawkins and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalists, with reporting and photography from RNZ correspondent Hilaire Bule in Port Vila The Vanuatu Prime Minister...

Kizzy Kalsakau and Anita Roberts in Port Vila Vanuatu's opposition leader Ralph Regenvanu said Members of Parliament from the Opposition bloc would boycott the special...

RNZ Pacific Vanuatu's Speaker was forced to suspend a special parliamentary sitting today after the opposition and several government MPs did not turn up. They were...

By Anita Roberts in Port Vila Vanuatu needs to continue to maintain its strong support for West Papua by ensuring that the United Liberation Movement...

By RNZ News Vanuatu's opposition leader is calling for engagement with New Caledonia's anti-independence side to convince them of a viable Kanaky. New Caledonia last week...

By Godwin Ligo, Terence Malapa and Kizzy Kalsakau in Port Vila The new Prime Minister of the Republic of Vanuatu is Bob Loughman, president of...

By Glenda Willie in Port Vila Voters in Vanuatu will be given the opportunity to vote for political reform laws in the country’s first ever...