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Nauru surpasses 2,000 COVID-19 cases amid an outbreak and emergency declared by President Lionel Aingimea.
2022-06-27

President Lionel Aingimea announces Nauru's first positive cases of COVID-19 in two asymptomatic people who travelled from Brisbane on March 31.
2022-04-2

Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama urges the leaders of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Kiribati, and Palau to reconsider their decision of leaving the Pacific Islands Forum and says that this is an opportunity to fight climate change. Bainimarama also invites U.S. President Joe Biden to the next forum meeting in August.
2021-02-22

Taiwan severs diplomatic relations with Kiribati, according to Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu. Only the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau and Tuvalu maintain formal relations with Taiwan in the Pacific.
2019-09-20

Israel announces that, on 16 August, Nauru officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
2019-08-29

Voters in Nauru go to the polls to elect new members of parliament. President Baron Waqa loses his parliamentary seat so he is not able to be re-elected in the office he has been holding since 2013.
2019-08-24

Voters in Nauru go to the polls for an election. The President of Nauru Baron Waqa is reelected in his constituency.
2016-07-9

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key says his country is willing to accept some asylum seekers from the Middle East and Asia, currently in detention camps on impoverished Pacific island nations. Presently, 267 refugees in Australia for medical treatment, some accompanied by a relative, are set to be returned to Nauru’s detention camp. Australia is hesitant about the offer, concerned that it could encourage people smugglers.
2016-02-19

Nauru swears in its third President in less than a week, as President Freddie Pitcher, in office for just six days, is ousted in a 9-8 vote of no confidence. Sprent Dabwido is sworn in as the new president.
2011-11-15

Nauru President Marcus Stephen dissolves Parliament, paving the way for an early general election, originally scheduled for 2011.
2010-03-16