According to ezinereligion, in 2007, the population of Vanuatu was estimated to be 220,000 people. The economy was largely based on agriculture and had a GDP of $1.1 billion. Foreign relations were mainly with its Pacific Island neighbours such as Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, as well as other developed countries around the world. In 2007, the country was led by Prime Minister Edward Natapei, who had been in power since 2004. During his premiership, Natapei sought to improve economic growth by introducing reforms such as tax incentives for foreign investment and privatization of state-owned enterprises.
Yearbook 2007
Vanuatu. According to CountryAAH, Port-Vila is the capital city of Vanuatu. Three people were killed and nearly 200 were arrested in March after ethnic strife broke out in Blacksands, an area on the outskirts of the capital Vila where thousands of people who have moved from other islands in Vanuatu have settled. The government announced a two-week state of emergency when public meetings in and around the capital were banned. It was also prohibited to travel from the smaller islands to the main island of Éfaté. The otherwise unarmed police force was allowed to carry weapons. The brawl should have started with a magician accused of using black magic to kill a rival. People from the islands of Tanna and Ambrym were beaten with machetes and knives. According to the local police, this was the worst outbreak of ethnic violence ever in the country.
Politically, as in previous years, it was turbulent. In May, the Minister of Agriculture was dismissed after cooperating with opposition parties in local elections. In June, our country’s party (Vanuaaku Pati, VP) was forced to leave the government coalition after the party supported a planned vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Ham Lini. But opposition leader Serge Vohor, who several times previously tried to put Lini through a distrust vote, this time withdrew his motion and joined his party the Union of Moderate Parties (UMP) into the government coalition. Vohor himself was appointed Minister of Infrastructure. Already in July, however, Vohor was kicked out of the government after threatening a government official for not getting his first salary. Lini retained his majority in Parliament by reintroducing our country’s party to the government. In July, the Deputy Prime Minister was also dismissed, as did Foreign Minister Sato Kilman, after it was revealed that members of his party The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) had been involved in a government check fraud. In addition, the Minister of Youth and Sports Dustan Hilton was dismissed. He was sentenced in August for fraud along with another MP from MPP.
- According to abbreviationfinder: VU is the 2-letter acronym for the country of Vanuatu.
History. – Between the first and second decade of the 21st century, Vanuatu was left with a strong political instability, with frequent changes to the government. After making a decisive reshuffle in November 2009, Premier Edward Natapei – leader of the relative majority party in Parliament, the Vanua’aku party (VP) – was disheartened in December 2010 and replaced by Sato Kilman, a member of the People’s progressive party. (PPP). In April 2011 it was the new prime minister who was subjected to a motion of no confidence, being replaced by Serge Vohor, of the French-speaking Union des partis modérés (UPM) party. A political stalemate followed: after his appeal against the motion was upheld, Kilman returned as prime minister in May; but in June it was his first election to be declared unconstitutional, because it did not take place by secret ballot. The impasse was resolved later this month when Parliament re-elected Kilman as prime minister. Reconfirmed to lead the government after the 2012 elections – the year in which Vanuatu joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) – Kilman was disheartened in March 2013, being replaced by Moana Carcasses Kalosil, of the Green confederation.
In 2014, the Capital investment immigration plan became operational, a program that allowed the acquisition of Vanuatu’s citizenship against an economic investment in the country. In May, after a vote of no confidence in Carcasses Kalosil, Joe Natuman (VP) became Prime Minister, but even the latter was disheartened in June 2015, being replaced by Kilman.
Offshore financial center, Vanuatu adopted a measure in 2014 to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, but the regulatory framework on the matter remained incomplete.
Vanuatu weather in March, April and May
Average daily temperatures between 27 ° C and 30 ° C can be expected over the next three months. In Port Vila it gets warmest in March, but May is a bit cooler.
Do you want to go on a beach holiday? The water temperatures are in March, April and May 27-28 ° C. This is great weather for a great time on the beach and in the water.
You can expect around 15 days of rainfall in March, around 14 days in April and around 10 days in May.
In the period from March to May , the sun shines an average of 6 hours a day.