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Port Moresby's Bomana Correctional Facility . . . nine inmates injured in an confrontation with jail guards. Image: RNZ/Johnny Blades
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Inmates in critical condition after alleged attack by PNG corrections officers

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Kanak pro-independence leader Christian Téin to remain in mainland French jail

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French security forces are still working on removing roadblocks
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CCAT leader Christian Téin, organiser of a series of marches and protests, mainly peaceful
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Condemnation of "despicable acts" by French colonialism
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Solidarity action in Vanuatu in support of the indigenous Kanak Indigenous people of New Caledonia
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Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: ‘Everything is negotiable, except independence’

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French Ambassador to the Pacific Véronique Roger-Lacan
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Bound for New Caledonia
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France sends armoured vehicles with machine gun capability to New Caledonia

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French repressive policies in New Caledonia have ‘betrayed’ Kanak hopes

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ULMWP president Benny Wenda
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West Papua independence group slams French ‘modern-day colonialism’

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A young Kanak boy carries the flag of independence as his elders carry the body of Jybril
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A message to the news media among the charred Nouméa protest debris
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French President Emmanuel Macron
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A Kanak pro-independence barricade near Nouméa during the current unrest
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French ‘betrayal’ triggered Kanak youth rebellion in Nouméa, says activist

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A Kanak protest barricade (in the distance behind the group of protesters) near Nouméa
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Solidarity action group calls on NZ to support Kanak, Papuan independence

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Kanak roadblocks on the highway to Nouméa's La Tontouta International Airport
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Some of the passengers on the special flight out of New Caledonia
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NZ’s first New Caledonia evacuation flight lands in Auckland

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Kanak and Palestine solidarity activists hold a joint demonstration at Montpellier, southern France
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The shrine at Uvanu in northern New Caledonia where a ceremony was held yesterday to mark the anniversary of the execution of 10 Kanaks resisting French colonial rule in 1868
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Pacific civil society groups condemn ‘heavy-handed’ French crackdown over Kanaky unrest

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"No to neocolonialism" say Christian Tein of the protest group CCAT and thousands of Kanak protesters
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Kanaky in flames: Five takeaways from the New Caledonia independence riots

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May 17, 2024
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Air New Zealand scheduled Saturday flight to Nouméa's Tontouta International Airport off
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New Caledonia’s Nouméa airport closed until Tuesday, says Air New Zealand

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