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Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese announces that Australia will pay Nauru to accept foreign-born criminals who are expelled from Australia following the signing of a memorandum by Nauruan president David Adeang.
2025-09-1

Nauru formally re-establishes diplomatic relations with China after withdrawing diplomatic recognition of Taiwan.
2024-01-24

Russ Kun becomes the President of Nauru, succeeding Lionel Aingimea.
2022-09-28

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

The Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, Mark Brown, calls the threat of five nations (Palau, Nauru, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia) withdrawing from the Pacific Islands Forum in case their nominee is not elected as Secretary-General as "premature" and "extreme".
2020-11-1

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

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