New Zealand Dispatches Troops, Police to the Solomons to Assist in Restoring ‘Law and Order’

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks at a post-Cabinet press conference with Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson and director general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield at the Beehive, Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, on Nov. 29, 2021. Mark Mitchell - Pool/Getty Images

New Zealand (NZ) will send troops and police to assist Australian, Papua New Guinean, and Fijian forces on the ground of the Solomon Islands, where rioting has left three people dead and several buildings burned to the ground.

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the government was “deeply concerned” by the civil unrest in the capital of the Solomon Islands, Honiara, and agreed to dispatch its forces after a request from Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare.