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The latest attempt to unseat Marape follows a tumultuous period that included a devastating landslide in Enga province, where thousands are believed to have died, as well as deadly riots just four months earlier.
Dispersed over 2,000km (1,240 miles), home to around 750,000 people – a quarter of them living in poverty – and increasingly coveted for its position in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the Solomon Islands is wooed by China and the US as a potential ally.
Japan’s Defence Minister Minoru Kihara will hold talks with peers from Pacific Island nations next week over security support, as Tokyo steps away from decades of Pacific policy to counter China’s dealmaking in a remote but strategically crucial region.
On Wednesday, the governor of Papua New Guinea’s Enga province, where the fighting occurred, asked lawmakers to call on Canberra to send in Australian Federal Police forces to help stem extreme tribal violence in the restive Highlands region.
The deal, which dates back to former US President Ronald Reagan’s administration and equates to about US$100 million a year, funds education, infrastructure, disaster preparedness and climate change resilience, among other urgent needs.