Kiribati's pro-China government bars foreign officials from visiting until 2025, citing elections

FILE - A man fishes on a bridge on Tarawa atoll, Kiribati, on March 30, 2004.

The government of Kiribati is suspending all diplomatic visits to the tiny Pacific Island nation until next year and has cancelled some already planned, because it is in the midst of an election process that could run for several more months, an official said Thursday.