Tag: Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific Correspondent French Pacific desk French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls has ended an extended seven-day visit to New Caledonia with...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Prime Minister François Bayrou's surprise announcement yesterday that he will call for a parliamentary confidence...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A newly established "drafting committee" held its inaugural meeting in Nouméa this week, aiming to translate...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls is once again in New Caledonia for a four-day visit...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia's pro-independence front, the FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front), has formally confirmed its...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor A former New Caledonia Congress president says there are "not enough" benefits for Kanaks in a new "draft"...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific Desk New Caledonia's oldest pro-independence party, the Union Calédonienne (UC), has officially rejected a political agreement on...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific Desk After three solid days of talks in retreat mode, New Caledonia's political parties have yet to...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Overseas Minister Manuel Valls, who was appointed yesterday as part of the new French government...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia's largest pro-independence party, the Union Calédonienne (UC), has unveiled the main outcome of its...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The election of Emmanuel Tjibaou as the new president of New Caledonia's main pro-independence party, the...

By Stefan Armbruster and Harry Pearl of BenarNews French police have shot and killed two men in New Caledonia, stoking tensions with pro-independence groups days...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A group of pro-independence leaders charged with allegedly organising protests that turned into violent unrest in...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist As New Caledonia passes the one-month mark since violent and deadly clashes erupted on last month, there has been...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia's security forces have arrested eight people believed to be involved in the organisation of...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The national congress of New Caledonia's pro-independence platform, the FLNKS, was postponed at the weekend due...

French President Emmanuel Macron, who visited Kanaky New Caledonia last month in a largely failed bid to solve the French Pacific territory's political deadlock,...

COMMENTARY: By Jimmy Naouna in Nouméa The unrest that has gripped Kanaky New Caledonia is the direct result of French President Emmanuel Macron’s partisan and...

By Pretoria Gordon, RNZ News journalist Jessie Ounei is following in her mum's footsteps as a Kanak pro-independence activist. Last Wednesday, Ounei organised a rally outside...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the 12-day state of emergency imposed in New Caledonia on...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle “Only the struggle counts . . .  death is nothing.”  Éloi Machoro -- "the Che Guevara of the Pacific" -- said...

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Jean-Marie Tjibaou, a revered Kanak visionary, was inspirational to indigenous Pacific political activists across Oceania, just...