April 17 (Reuters) - The Solomon Islands holds a national election on Wednesday, the first since Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare signed a security pact with China that prompted concern from the ...

April 17 was election day in the Solomon Islands, a country of around 750,000 people northeast of Australia that is best known to most Americans as the site of the World War II battles of Guadalcanal, ...

MELBOURNE — Solomon Islands lawmakers elected Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele as prime minister Thursday in a development that suggests the South Pacific island nation will maintain close ties with ...

Counting for the national election in the Solomon Islands began on Thursday. The election follows a security pact with China in 2022 by Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, potentially shifting the ...

Although a small Pacific Islands state with an estimated population of 740,000 people, Solomon Islands has been at the center of a geopolitical power play since 2019 when then prime minister Sogavare ...

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The opposition and media groups have described the order of the prime minister as a form of press censorship. This statement was originally published on advox.globalvoices.org on 8 August 2022. It is ...

China will send officials to the Solomon Islands next month to sign cooperation agreements, the Pacific nation's parliament was told on Tuesday, amid a backlash from the United States, Australia and ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Solomon Islands lawmakers elected former Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele as prime minister Thursday in a development that suggests the South Pacific island nation will ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Solomon Islands lawmakers elected former Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele as prime minister Thursday in a development that suggests the South Pacific island nation will maintain ...