Yearly Archives: 2024

Agence France Presse photojournalist Christina Assi

Pacific Media Watch A Lebanese photojournalist who was severely wounded during an Israeli air strike in south Lebanon carried the Olympic torch in Paris this...
Hundreds of people marched in Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands, on March 1

The first report in a five-part web series focused on the 15th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women taking place in the Marshall Islands this...
The Facebook ban on In-Depth Solomons reports

RNZ Pacific Facebook has reportedly temporarily blocked posts published by an independent online news outlet in Solomon Islands after incorrectly labelling its content as "spam". In-Depth...
East Sepik Governor Allan Bird

RNZ Pacific and ABC Violent attacks on three remote villages in Papua New Guinea's north have reportedly killed 26 people, including 16 children, while several...
Retired Major-General Jerry Singirok

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist A former Papua New Guinea army leader, Major-General Jerry Singirok, is furious after being arrested and charged under...
Participants in the recent Pacific International Media Conference 2024

By Kaneta Naimatau in Suva In a democracy, citizens must critically evaluate issues based on facts. However in a very polarised society, people focus more...
"All Out For Kanaky"

RNZ Pacific The French Ambassador to the Pacific says President Emmanuel Macron is yet to sign-off on a letter from the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF)...
Pro-Palestinian students hold a sit-in at Melbourne University

ANALYSIS: By Randa Abdel-Fattah Since 7 October 2023, across every profession and social realm in Australia -- teachers, students, doctors, nurses, academics, public servants, lawyers,...
New Zealand is about to sacrifice what it cannot afford to lose for something it doesn’t need

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Australia and New Zealand’s populations must now wake up to the fact that our countries have been drawn into what ForeignPolicy.com...
Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

By Brooke Tindall, Queensland University of Technology With more than 50 Fijian villages earmarked for potential relocation in the next five to 10 years due...
Mining giant RioTinto

RNZ Pacific About 4500 Bougainvillean residents now back a lawsuit against mining giant Rio Tinto. This is an additional 1500 people from the autonomous Papua New...
"All Eyes on Papua" . . . a campaign against Indonesian exploitation of Papuan rainforests

By Stefan Armbruster, Harlyne Joku and Tria Dianti No progress has been made in sending a UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s Papuan provinces despite...
French riot police near the spot - marked with a tribal offering - where 19-year-old Jybril Salo was shot in the back last May.

RNZ Pacific New Zealand should join others in calling New Caledonia's third independence referendum invalid, one of the founders of the Kanaky Aotearoa Solidarity Network...
Australian academic and social justIce advocate Helen Hill

COMMENTARY: By Sandy Yule When Melbourne-born Helen Hill, an outstanding social activist, scholar and academic, died on 7 May 2024 at the age of 79,...
Professor Vijay Naidu

Pacific Media Watch An interview with former University of the South Pacific (USP) development studies professor Dr Vijay Naidu, a founding president of the Fiji...
The International Court of Justice has ruled Israel’s occupation of the Gaza, West Bank and East Jerusalem is illegal

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, “War, Peace and the Presidency.” I’m Amy Goodman. We end today’s show in The Hague, where the International...
The Port Moresby call centre for the national census

By Bramo Tingkeo in Port Moresby Port Moresby residents who have missed out on the Papua New Guinea's national census counting have been urged to...
A Kanaky prison parallel with Palestine

In the West Bank, one in three Palestinians has experienced one or more incarcerations during their life since 1967, or 35 percent of the...
Suspended Fiji Director of Public Prosecutions Christopher Pryde

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific digital/social lead Foreign Minister Winston Peters has "hung . . . out to dry" Fiji's suspended New Zealand Director of...
A Post-Courier artist's impression of the Chimbu attack

PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea's Chuave District Development Authority is condemning an attack on a priest and his team in Chimbu province. Father Ryszard Wajda (SVD),...
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) representative to the South Pacific Jonathan Veitch

By Sainimili Magimagi in Suva Family members keep silent on the issue of violence in Fiji and individuals continue to be the victims, according to...
Tahiti's veteran politician Gaston Flosse (left) with Bruno Sandras, vice-president of the Amuitahiraa o te Nunaa Maohi party

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Polynesia's veteran politician, 93-year-old Gaston Flosse, announced last week he is stepping down from his...