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December 19, 2024
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific news editor There are conflicting reports of the official death toll from this week’s massive earthquake in Vanuatu as rescue teams continue to scour the rubble for survivors. On Tuesday, the Vanuatu National Disaster Management Office reported 14 deaths. It said four people had been confirmed dead by the hospital, ... <a title="Vanuatu quake: Rescue teams continue Port Vila hunt for survivors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/19/vanuatu-quake-rescue-teams-continue-port-vila-hunt-for-survivors/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu quake: Rescue teams continue Port Vila hunt for survivors">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2022
By Hiliare Bule, RNZ News correspondent in Port Vila Forty nine regional and international observers have arrived in Vanuatu to monitor the running of the country’s snap election tomorrow. The election was triggered after the dissolution of the country’s Parliament on August 19 by President Nikenike Vurobaravu, and on the eve of a motion of ... <a title="Vanuatu snap election: International observers arrive for key vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/13/vanuatu-snap-election-international-observers-arrive-for-key-vote/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu snap election: International observers arrive for key vote">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2022
RNZ Pacific The Chief Justice of Vanuatu has ordered the amendment of a constitutional application against the dissolution of Parliament to exclude the president of the republic from the case. The application, which was heard in the Supreme Court today in Port Vila, was brought by 27 opposition MPs who were signatories to a motion ... <a title="Vanuatu’s chief justice orders change over dissolution of parliament plea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/25/vanuatus-chief-justice-orders-change-over-dissolution-of-parliament-plea/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu’s chief justice orders change over dissolution of parliament plea">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
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 the instrument for the dissolution of Parliament this afternoon on the eve of a proposed motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Bob Loughman that was to have been ... <a title="Vanuatu president dissolves parliament – ‘respect it’ plea by Loughman" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/vanuatu-president-dissolves-parliament-respect-it-plea-by-loughman/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu president dissolves parliament – ‘respect it’ plea by Loughman">Read more</a>
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August 17, 2022
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 Bob Loughman has confirmed he will attend the next sitting of an extra-ordinary Parliament session on Friday to face a motion of no-confidence in his leadership. Loughman and 20 MPs ... <a title="‘Just a power grab’ claim over Vanuatu PM’s no-confidence vote boycott" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/17/just-a-power-grab-claim-over-vanuatu-pms-no-confidence-vote-boycott/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Just a power grab’ claim over Vanuatu PM’s no-confidence vote boycott">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2022
RNZ Pacific Nikenike Vurobaravu has been voted the 12th President of the Republic of Vanuatu. It took eight rounds of voting by the 58-member Electoral College before he secured the required minimum number of 38 this afternoon. In the end he got a resounding 47 votes, after the Prime Minister, Bob Loughman, reached a deal ... <a title="Vanuatu elects new president after eight rounds of voting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/24/vanuatu-elects-new-president-after-eight-rounds-of-voting/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu elects new president after eight rounds of voting">Read more</a>
