Radio Kiribati said incumbent Taneti Maamau garnered 26,053 votes to claim a second four-year term, finishing more than 8,000 ahead of opposition leader Banuera Berina.

Kiribati leader Taneti Maamau, who campaigned for closer ties with Beijing, has emerged victorious in a tight race for the presidency, underscoring the island nation’s diplomatic switch towards ...

Kiribati’s incumbent leader, President Taneti Maamau, has secured a second term in a fiercely fought election victory that has also tightened China’s foothold in the central Pacific. Mr Maamau ...

Radio Kiribati said incumbent Taneti Maamau garnered 26,053 votes to claim a second four-year term, finishing more than 8,000 ahead of opposition leader Banuera Berina.

Kiribati's pro-Beijing incumbent President Taneti Maamau has been reelected after a presidential election battle dubbed one of the most aggressive campaigns in the island nation's history. Maamau's ...

FILE - Kiribati President Taneti Maamau addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 22, 2022, in New York. Maamau won his third term in office on Oct. 26, 2024.

President Taneti Maamau not only opted out of the Pacific Island Forum meeting in Suva, ... an area larger than India. Around 100,000 people live there under pro-Beijing President Maamau, ...

President Taneti Maamau, the man responsible for switching Kiribati's allegiance from Taiwan to China, is re-elected after an election campaign with extravagant promises on the basis of Chinese funds.

Taneti Maamau, who in September announced the Pacific island nation’s switch to diplomatic ties with Beijing, remains president; The result dashes Taipei’s hopes of a resumption of formal ties ...

In the remote Pacific island nation of Kiribati, population 120,000, President Taneti Maamau wants to extend his decade in power - and deepen his country’s increasingly cozy relationship with China.

President Taneti Maamau not only opted out of the Pacific Island Forum meeting in Suva, ... an area larger than India. Around 100,000 people live there under pro-Beijing President Maamau, ...