2018 in Nauru

Events in the year 2018 in Nauru.

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