Nauru in a sentence

The Nauru government has previously indicated it would appeal a stay to the recently formed Nauru court of appeal, the new apex appellate court in the Nauru justice system (after Australia’s high court was removed as an appellate option).

The Nauru government on Friday accused the Australian media of "biased" reporting of its prosecution of the so-called Nauru 19, a group of former Opposition MPs and their supporters, over protests outside the nation's Parliament in 2015.

Following Stephen's election, ROC President Chen Shui-bian telephoned him to congratulate him, assure him of the ROC's continued assistance for Nauru, request Nauru's continued support in return, and invite him to visit Taiwan.

However, alliances within the government are often formed on the basis of extended family ties rather than party affiliation. citation From 1992 to 1999, Nauru had a local government system known as the Nauru Island Council (NIC).

In 1989, Nauru took legal actions against Australia in the International Court of Justice over Australia's actions during its administration of Nauru.

Komet then shelled Nauru's phosphate mining areas, oil storage depots, and the shiploading cantilever. citation citation US Army Air Force bombing the Japanese airstrip on Nauru, 1943.

Nauru currently lacks money to perform many of the basic functions of government; for example, the National Bank of Nauru is insolvent.

Nauru main Nauru was part of the British Western Pacific Territories from September 1914 and June 1921.

The Japanese troops built an airfield on Nauru which was bombed for the first time on 25 March 1943, preventing food supplies from being flown to Nauru.

The Nauru government claims this aid is not related to its recognising Abkhazia and South Ossetia. citation A significant portion of Nauru's income has been in the form of aid from Australia.

Around 30 countries, including Nauru, were granted exploration contracts by the UN agency that governs deep-sea mining, the International Seabed Authority, in 2011.

But 60 refugees remain in Nauru, with the country still marred in refugee protests locally.

In 2016, these 2,000-plus reports were leaked from Australia’s detention centers for asylum seekers on the Pacific islands of Nauru and Manus.

In 2020, Mozammil Bhojani was convicted of bribing Nauru government officials in return for preferential treatment on phosphate mining contracts.

That was apparently triggered by suspicions that Pif might reconsider plans to appoint the former Nauru president Baron Waqa to take overas the regional group’s secretary general next year.

The people of Nauru are primarily of Nauruan descent, and the official language is Nauruan.

Adeang described the treaty, which will have to be ratified by both nations’ parliaments, as a “historic milestone” that would help lift up the population of Nauru, ranked the fifth most vulnerable in the world by the United Nations.

Answers to questions on notice and the November 2023 Operation Sovereign Borders confirm that a further 12 people who were found on the Western Australian coast in November have been sent to Nauru.

Collectively, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru and Palau have a population half the size of Pittsburgh.

Nauru has become the 10th country to have cut its diplomatic relations with Taiwan over its self-governing desire since 2016.