Marshall Islands

The Marshall Islands has issued an indefinite ban on all international travel by government employees and elected leaders to reduce risk of importing the coronavirus.

Two Marshall Islanders died from dengue fever this week at Majuro hospital emphasising the severity of the outbreak now in its eighth month.

With Majuro hospital wards overflowing with dengue fever patients, a US volunteer medical team has arrived to bolster the hospital's treatment programme.

The Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands have strengthened travel bans in reaction to the coronavirus, writes Giff Johnson.

The Marshall Islands government is seeking answers from US police after a Marshallese man was shot and killed by an officer in Washington state. Audio

The Marshall Islands issued a travel advisory Friday night banning travelers coming directly from the People's Republic of China, where the coronavirus originated.

The hospital in Majuro is overflowing, its doctors exhausted, its wards strained, budgets withered, and no end in sight. Every day, dozens more patients are wheeled in to wait in corridors.

Five months after a dengue fever outbreak started in Majuro, the outbreak is getting worse.

The formal inauguration for the new government of thte Marshall Islands is set for Monday in Majuro, with heads of state arriving over the weekend to attend the ceremony.

A son of the founding president of the Marshall Islands has been elected as the new head of state.

Voter turnout in the November 2019 national election in the Marshall Islands was the lowest in five elections.

A Papua New Guinea national is being held in jail in the Marshall Islands to face a murder charge after allegedly beating a Kiribati fisherman on board a fishing vessel in Majuro's lagoon last week.

The US Congress has demanded an investigation into a concrete dome full of nuclear waste, threatened by rising sea levels in the Marshall Islands.

Despite millions of pounds of tuna transshipped through Pacific island ports, nobody has a precise count of the tonnage.

A renewable energy system that uses ocean water is scheduled to move from 45 years of experimentation to seeing the world's two largest ocean thermal facilities installed in the Pacific and Caribbean.

With measles spreading throughout the Pacific region, the Marshall Islands has stepped up its prevention campaign.

Most Marshall Islanders living in their home islands say that job opportunities, education, medical needs or family visits are the reasons that they leave to the United States.

About 200 people evacuated their homes in the capital of the Marshall Islands on Wednesday after big waves caused ocean inundation around the low-lying atoll.

The nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands is having a lingering effect on the handing down of the country's oral history. Audio