Tag: French Pacific

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk After the surprise announcement of the French National Assembly's dissolution last Sunday, French Pacific territories are...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ French Pacific correspondent A former New Caledonia-based High Commissioner, Patrice Faure, has been appointed Chief-of-Staff of French President Emmanuel Macron. Faure is...

ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ French Pacific correspondent A prominent pro-France leader in New Caledonia, Sonia Backès, has resigned from the French government after a...

ANALYSIS: By Ravindra Singh Prasad In a historic first visit to an independent Pacific state by a sitting French president, President Emmanuel Macron has denounced...

By Eleisha Foon, journalist France has deployed Rafale jet fighters during a military ceremony in New Caledonia, marking President Emmanuel Macron's first official day in...

RNZ Pacific French President Emmanuel Macron will make a first official visit to Papua New Guinea next Friday as part of a short Pacific trip. AFP...

ANALYSIS: By Hugh Piper and Anna Gibert As geopolitics brings increasing engagement by external actors with the Pacific, there is a need to coordinate more...

By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist New Caledonian Joe Xulue has made history by becoming the first person of Kanak heritage to graduate from Harvard...

By David Robie New Caledonia's Kanak national liberation movement has told the UN Decolonisation Committee that France has "robbed" the indigenous people of their independence...

RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's new President Moetai Brotherson is in Paris for wide-ranging talks with the French government and the organisers of the 2024 Paris...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front)  says the advice of the International Court of Justice...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter The president of New Caledonia's largest pro-independence party Daniel Goa will not be prosecuted for alleged calls for violence...

RNZ Pacific The Appeal Court in French Polynesia has acquitted the pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru and two others in the case of the funding of...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter New Caledonia's largest pro-independence party says the latest French pronouncement on self-determination is an insult to the decolonisation process. Amid...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has invited the United Nations Decolonisation Committee members to visit New Caledonia. Controlled by France...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter French Polynesia's anti-nuclear organisation Association 193 has criticised the latest French report about the impact of the France's nuclear...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva Mā’ohi Nui and the Pacific region has witnessed a historical moment at the Territorial Assembly when Oscar Temaru, leader of...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter French Polynesia's presidential candidate Moetai Brotherson has named four ministers in his proposed government, and confirmed he will vacate...

By Stefan Armbruster A pro-independence party has decisively won elections in French Polynesia, marking a historic shift in one of France’s Pacific territories. Veteran politician Oscar...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva Mā'ohi Nui's blue wave of the pro-independence Tavini Huir'atira has won its bet -- to be back in the helm...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter French Polynesia's pro-independence Tavini Huira'atira party has won the election for a new 57-member Territorial Assembly, paving the way...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter New Caledonia's largest pro-independence party has been told that France is "panicking" and afraid of losing New Caledonia. The head...