Tropical Cyclone Harold and COVID-19 are predicted to cost Vanuatu 61 per cent of it's 2021 GDP, whilst Pacific leaders have emphasised the continued effects of the pandemic at the United Nations, Hugh McClure writes.

For women in Papua New Guinea’s patriarchal politics, getting elected takes many more years of hard work than their male counterparts, Theresa Meki writes.

The government of French Polynesia has refused to close schools despite surging numbers of COVID-19 cases, whilst Fiji has extended financial relief to pension fund members, Hugh McClure writes.

The use of mobile technologies in the 2019 Bougainville referendum presents both opportunities and challenges for the future of democracy in the Pacific, Amanda H A Watson, Jeremy Miller and Adriana Schmidt write.

Two-thirds of Papua New Guinea's small and medium-sized businesses have been forced to close their doors as a result of COVID-19, whilst French Polynesia's president has tested positive for the virus, Hugh McClure writes.

China is using the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to increase its engagement with the Pacific, Denghua Zhang writes in the latest of our In Brief series.