Its brief period of extraordinary wealth came from mining, with huge deposits discovered by a British company in the early ...

The Nauru Regional Processing Centre, a contentious offshore immigration detention facility, has been intermittently used over the past 24 years. By 2005, phosphate mining and exports had resumed ...

Nauru, spanning just eight square miles, has been the site of phosphate mining for decades and its highest point is a mere 65 metres above sea level. This puts it in a particularly unfavourable ...

had been discovered on Nauru in the early 1900s and Nauru once enjoyed wealth thanks to phosphate mining. However, the country’s story took a drastic turn when bad investments, a failed airline ...