Tag: Kanak independence

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...

Brief reports have surfaced about the separate bilateral meetings of the Kanaky New Caledonia pro- and anti- independence representatives with French Prime Minister Élisabeth...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter New Caledonia's rival pro- and anti-independence factions both say they are satisfied with the week of separate talks with...

By Jan Kohout, RNZ Pacific journalist New Caledonia's Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) say they will tell the French Prime Minister of the...

RNZ Pacific New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS movement is holding its congress this weekend to prepare its position for the bilateral talks scheduled with French Interior...

RNZ Pacific New Caledonia's pro-independence Union Calédonian has proposed September 24 this year as the date by which an accord be reached with France to...

RNZ Pacific An Australian-based French law professor says it is up to the French people as a whole, and not the voters in New Caledonia,...

RNZ Pacific The French government says it will not organise another referendum in Kanaky New Caledonia during the French President's current five-year term. A year ago,...

RNZ Pacific The local administration in the New Caledonian township of Canala stayed shut on Monday to mark the first anniversary of the last referendum...

RNZ Pacific None of the parties making up New Caledonia's pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) will attend this week's talks in France...

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...

RNZ Pacific France's new Minister for Overseas Territories Jean-François Carenco was told to "find a solution" to the political impasse in New Caledonia. Carenco started his...

RNZ Pacific Plans to hold a referendum in Kanaky New Caledonia next year on a new statute for the territory are being deferred. French Junior Overseas...

RNZ Pacific The newly re-elected President of the New Caledonian Congress, Roch Wamytan, says a visit by French representatives will take place on September 12. The...

RNZ Pacific The President of New Caledonia's Congress Roch Wamytan is set to be re-elected for another one-year term after the party holding the balance...

RNZ Pacific The holding of New Caledonia's third and final referendum on independence from France during the covid-19 pandemic last year is being challenged in...

RNZ Pacific New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Liberation Movement for West...

RNZ Pacific New Caledonia's pro-independence Palika party has joined the Caledonian Union in rejecting talks in Paris announced by the French Interior Ministry. The ministry called...

RNZ Pacific An indigenous legal challenge in a bid to annul the result of last December's referendum on New Caledonia's independence from France has failed. The...

RNZ Pacific New Caledonia's largest pro-independence party says it will not give up on the gains made in terms of decolonisation from France under the...

RNZ Pacific Two parties of New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) movement have restated their intention to attain the territory's decolonisation...

RNZ Pacific A New Caledonian member of the French National Assembly says a consensus needs to be found on Kanaky New Caledonia's future statute after...