Vanuatu 1996
Yearbook 1996 Vanuatu. In 1996, Vanuatu was characterized by great political unrest, fueled by a broad-based attempt to embezzle the entire Treasury. In January, the opposition coalition Unity Front filed…
Category: Oceania
Tuvalu 1996
Yearbook 1996 Tuvalu. Tuvalu continued to be one of the least developed countries in the world. The only incident reported during the year to international news agencies from Tuvalu was…
Tonga 1996
Yearbook 1996 Tonga. Parliamentary elections were held January 24-25. Nine noble and nine noble members were appointed, the former of the country’s 33 noble families, the latter in general elections.…
Solomon Islands 1996
Yearbook 1996 Solomon Islands. The government’s unwillingness to regulate forest harvesting continued to create controversy in the country. The murder of an anti-fencing activist on the island of Pavuvu in…
Samoa 1996
King Malietoa Tanumafili II died in May 2007, aged 94. He was the current reigning monarch who had held the third longest post – second to King Bhumibol Adulyadej of…
Papua New Guinea 1996
Yearbook 1996 Papua New Guinea. In June, the government launched a military offensive against the separatist guerrilla Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA), which controlled a tenth of the mineral-rich island of…
Palau 1996
In August 1988, President Salii was found killed by a gunshot wound. The official version was about suicide. A new vote on the association with the United States did not…
New Zealand 1996
Yearbook 1996 New Zealand. The political map was unclear after the October elections. The New Zealand First Disappointment Party (New Zealand First, NZF) received 15 seats in Parliament and was…
Nauru 1996
On February 13, 1997, Parliament elected Kinza Godfrey Clodumar as new president – the 4th in just 4 months. As one of his first steps, he started attracting foreign investment…
Micronesia 1996
Micronesia Federation, Federal Republic of Oceania; consists of the central and eastern parts of the archipelago of the Karolines in the Pacific Ocean approx. 1000 kilometers northeast of New Guinea.…