Tag: Kanak activists
Violent clashes in New Caledonia as tensions rise over nickel pact
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
Fresh clashes in New Caledonia have erupted in the suburbs of Nouméa between security forces and...
Kanak trade union USTKE pioneer and militant leader ‘Loulou’ Uregei dies
Asia Pacific Report
Louis Kotra Uregei, an emblematic and radical figure in the independence struggle in New Caledonia, has died aged 71, announced the Union...
FLNKS insists on full sovereignty for Kanaky New Caledonia
RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia's pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) movement and five other small nationalist parties have agreed that they will only...
‘France still doesn’t understand us Kanaks after 30 years of dialogue’
By Jan Kohout in Noumea
There have been mixed opinions from New Caledonia's communities after the third and final referendum returned a 96 percent vote...