2018 in Nauru

Events in the year 2018 in Nauru.

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See also:	Other events of 2018 Timeline of Nauruan history

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.^[1]
• 30 January – The Nauruan government lifts a temporary ban on Facebook started in 2015.^[2]
• 12 February – Nauru and South Ossetia abolish visa requirements for visits shorter than 90 days.^[3]
• 18 February – Thirty-five refugees leave Nauru for resettlement in Los Angeles in the United States.^[4]
• 25 February – Twenty-six refugees leave Nauru for resettlement in the United States.^[5]
• 4 March – Twenty-nine refugees leave Nauru for resettlement in the United States.^[6]
• 13 March
  • Nauru severs ties with the High Court of Australia.^[7]
  • Australian judge Geoffrey Muecke takes the oath of office to become a justice of the Supreme Court of Nauru.^[8]
• 9 April – Charisma Amoe-Tarrant wins Nauru a silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Women's +90kg weightlifting event in Gold Coast, Australia.^[9][10]
• 30 April – Sixteen refugees leave Nauru for resettlement in the United States.^[11]
• 1 June – Nauru nationals are granted visa-free entry to Taiwan for visits up to 30 days.^[12]
• 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.^[13]
• 2 July – Nauru announces plans to block the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from attending and covering the Pacific Islands Forum in September.^[14]
• 8 July – Twenty-three refugees leave Nauru for resettlement in the United States.^[15]
• 22 July – Thirty-six refugees leave Nauru for resettlement in the United States.^[16]
• 4 September – Television New Zealand reporter Barbara Dreaver is detained by the Nauru Police Force following an interviews with refugees.^[17]
• 13 September – Justice Geoff Muecke grants the Nauru 19 a permanent stay on their case tied to a protest in 2015.^[18]
• 4 December – The Nauru Court of Appeals formally opens.^[19]
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  • Nauru partners with the company DeepGreen Resources for future deep sea mining.^[20][21]
  • A coalition of Australian human rights groups set 20 November as a deadline for removing refugee from offshore detention centres in Nauru.^[22]