Tonga - unique among Pacific nations - never completely lost its indigenous governance. The archipelagos of "The Friendly Islands" were united into a Polynesian kingdom in 1845. Tonga became a ...

The Pacific island nation of Tonga has suffered widespread damage after a huge underwater volcanic eruption and tsunami on the weekend. The disaster has virtually cut the country off from the rest of ...

A Dec. 19, 2023, Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a person talking about the 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, an underwater volcano in the South Pacific Ocean. "When the ...

SYDNEY, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Here are five facts about Tonga and the impact of the underwater volcanic eruption, opens new tab on the South Pacific island group. Tonga is a Polynesian archipelago of 176 ...

The IAEA has conducted its first official fact finding mission to two of its newest Member States, Samoa and Tonga, to gain an overview of the two countries’ needs and the opportunities for IAEA ...