Oceania Tuvalu The Fakaapo Festival has brought together the eight islands of Tuvalu under the theme “Te Lagi, Te Umaga, Te Uaniu, Te Moana” - Heavens, Land, Harvest and Ocean - to celebrate Tuvaluan culture and traditions on one of Funafuti’s reclaimed lands
Oceania Tuvalu A four-days Anticipatory Action Workshop will be held in Tuvalu; organized by the national Disaster Risk Management Office, it will build a clean anticipatory approach and focus on turning priorities into practical actions before hazards become disasters
Oceania Tuvalu Radio is keeping Tuvaluan culture alive as migration reshapes its society; Te Leo o Tuvalu is a fortnightly radio program connecting the diaspora, put together as a Facebook Live stream and playlist of traditional fatele by a small team in Brisbane
Oceania Tuvalu As a Chinese test of a long-range missile that landed in the Pacific Ocean near the waters of its Exclusive Economic Zone, Tuvalu expressed "grave and serious concern" over the experiment
Oceania Tuvalu The premiere of "Pristine Seas", a documentary from the National Geographic, highlighted the findings of a landmark marine scientific expedition that was conducted in Tuvalu's waters in 2025 at the request of the Government of Tuvalu
Oceania Tuvalu Tuvalu Gender Outlook 2025 and the new official website have been presented in front of the five contestants of the Sei Tuvalu Pageant 2026 and the reigning Sei Tuvalu, assessing gender-linked national achievements and comparing to other Pacific countries
Oceania Tuvalu The people of Vaitupu Island celebrated the 80th anniversary of the purchase of Kioa Island in Fiji, a move of vision and courage of Vaitupu's forefathers, that while recovering from the impacts of WWII in the Pacific they planned for future generations
Oceania Tuvalu At the Island States Ocean Summit held in Tokyo, Japan, Tuvalu's President underlined that climate action and ocean management should merge into one single global agenda, warning that low-lying states can no longer afford to plan for the two separately
Oceania Tuvalu Due to critical fuel shortages caused by global supply chain disruptions, a state of emergency has been declared on Funafuti Island, highlighting the intense vulnerability of Pacific nations reliant on imported diesel for power
Oceania Tuvalu With a total score of 93/100 in the Freedom in the World 2026 report by Freedom House, Tuvalu is recognized as one of the freest nations in the Pacific, displaying strong democratic stability with Political Rights scored at 37/40, Civil Liberties 56/60
Oceania Tuvalu Celebrating World Earth Day, Tuvalu reminded that sea level has risen 21 centimeters in 30 years, twice the global average, and that the greatest day-to-day challenge for island communities is the increase in the number and intensity of high tides
Oceania Tuvalu Tuvalu would be looking at signing a treaty with New Zealand by 2028; The island nation has recently entered into treaties with Australia and Taiwan on climate and migration issues
Oceania Tuvalu Recent consultations on the Digital Nation in Funafuti have underlined that the recurrent narrative of a lost battle against climate change and the inevitable sinking of Tuvalu are distract focus from the key point of a possibile different future