The detention facility’s purpose has diminished, but the country’s geopolitical importance has increased. In the meantime, 73 people languish there.

In the meantime, 73 people languish there. By Grant Wyeth January 31, 2023 Credit: Wikimedia Commons / DIAC Images Australia has no intention of closing its offshore detention center in Nauru.

An Iranian asylum seeker has died two days after setting himself alight in an Australian detention center on the remote Pacific island of Nauru. The 23-year-old man was first treated at Nauru ...

The Australian and Nauru governments make it very difficult for journalists to see the detention center firsthand. The Nauru government charges media an A$8,000 dollar (around US$5,800 ...

A young woman filmed the moment she 'accidentally broke into' an offshore Australian immigration detention centre. Travel blogger Chloe Jade was visiting the Micronesian island of Nauru, north ...

Once home to a thriving phosphate mine, Nauru is now awash with refugee accommodation made from white vinyl marquees. More than 2,000 people have been transferred to the center since 2012 as ...

Sydney, Oct 8 (EFE). — Australia’s government said Thursday that it did not control the controversial offshore immigrant processing center it funds on the tiny island nation of Nauru and that ...

ELEANOR HALL: Jeff Waters in Nauru, thank you. A team from Amnesty International has conducted the first independent inspection of the Australian immigration detention camp in Nauru.

Police on the Pacific island nation of Nauru, which is under scrutiny over conditions and reports of child abuse at an Australian immigration detention center it hosts, on Thursday raided the ...

Australia uses offshore detention centres in Papua New Guinea and the tiny South Pacific Island nation of Nauru to process would-be refugees who arrive on boats. There are 1,127 people in ...