19 September 2024. The man behind the 2000 coup in Fiji, George Speight, and the head of the mutineers, former soldier Shane Stevens have been granted Presidential pardons.

2 September 2024. The Pacific Islands Forum has emphasised solidarity in the face of the many challenges confronting the region, with climate change affecting nearly every area of discussion.

11 August 2024. The high-level Pacific mission to New Caledonia will be a three-person led delegation and it is still expected to happen prior to the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders (PIF) Meeting in Tonga on 26 August, PIF chair Mark Brown says.

6 August 2024. Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) chair and Tongan Prime Minister Hu'akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni is still waiting for Paris to approve a Pacific mission to New Caledonia.

2 June 2024. Fiji's political parties registrar says FijiFirst - the country's largest political party in Parliament - has been officially deregistered.

24 June 2024. The new Pacific Islands Forum secretary general Baron Waqa has sounded a warning to officials attending a regional conference on security not to allow geopolitics to disrupt the peace in the region.

9 June 2024. A Pacific regional network has deplored what they call increasing brutality on Kanak youth in New Caledonia and the deployment of thousands of troops.

28 May 2024. More than 2000 people were buried alive in a huge landslide which hit Papua New Guinea, its National Disaster Centre has now confirmed.