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Solomon Islands’ Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said that he would not stand for a new term, ending his pro-China rule of more than four years.
His withdrawal followed inconclusive April 17 elections that led his party to choose Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele as its parliamentary leader
Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons, is a country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, in the western South Pacific Ocean to the northeast of Australia.
It is directly adjacent to Papua New Guinea to the northwest, Australia to the southwest, New Caledonia and Vanuatu to the southeast, Fiji, Wallis and Futuna, and Tuvalu to the east, and Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia to the north.
The major part of the nation of Solomon Islands covers many of the mountainous volcanic islands of the Solomon Islands archipelago
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