• Source: 2018 in Nauru

      • Events in the year 2018 in Nauru.


      Incumbents


      President: Baron Waqa
      Speaker of Parliament: Cyril Buraman


      Events


      10 January – Australian High Commissioner to Nauru Angela Tierney presents her credentials to President Waqa.
      30 January – The Nauruan government lifts a temporary ban on Facebook started in 2015.
      12 February – Nauru and South Ossetia abolish visa requirements for visits shorter than 90 days.
      18 February – Thirty-five refugees leave Nauru for resettlement in Los Angeles in the United States.
      25 February – Twenty-six refugees leave Nauru for resettlement in the United States.
      4 March – Twenty-nine refugees leave Nauru for resettlement in the United States.
      13 March
      Nauru severs ties with the High Court of Australia.
      Australian judge Geoffrey Muecke takes the oath of office to become a justice of the Supreme Court of Nauru.
      9 April – Charisma Amoe-Tarrant wins Nauru a silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Women's +90kg weightlifting event in Gold Coast, Australia.
      30 April – Sixteen refugees leave Nauru for resettlement in the United States.
      1 June – Nauru nationals are granted visa-free entry to Taiwan for visits up to 30 days.
      15 June – An Iranian asylum seeker's body is found in an Australian offshore processing centre on Nauru. The asylum seeker committed suicide, the third in processing centres on Nauru to do so.
      2 July – Nauru announces plans to block the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from attending and covering the Pacific Islands Forum in September.
      8 July – Twenty-three refugees leave Nauru for resettlement in the United States.
      22 July – Thirty-six refugees leave Nauru for resettlement in the United States.
      4 September – Television New Zealand reporter Barbara Dreaver is detained by the Nauru Police Force following an interviews with refugees.
      13 September – Justice Geoff Muecke grants the Nauru 19 a permanent stay on their case tied to a protest in 2015.
      4 December – The Nauru Court of Appeals formally opens.
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      Nauru partners with the company DeepGreen Resources for future deep sea mining.
      A coalition of Australian human rights groups set 20 November as a deadline for removing refugee from offshore detention centres in Nauru.


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