Tag: Kanak independence
Kanaks pledge third New Caledonia independence referendum
By RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia's pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) movement has confirmed that it will request a third and final referendum...
Opponents scramble to avoid New Caledonia’s third referendum
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
A third referendum on independence from France looms in New Caledonia unless talks over the next six months satisfy...
Melanesian Spearhead Group still backs Kanak decolonisation agenda
By RNZ Pacific
The Melanesian Spearhead Group says it will continue to support the Kanak people in their quest for independence from France despite the...
Victory in defeat for Kanak independence movement in latest referendum
ANALYSIS: By David Robie
While pro-independence Kanak supporters rued another defeat in the second referendum on independence for New Caledonia at the weekend, it was...
New Caledonia rejects independence again, but Kanak vote gains ground
New Caledonia's people have narrowly voted to stay part of France in the second referendum on the issue in two years. Video: Al Jazeera
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Count down under way for New Caledonia’s independence vote
By RNZ News
The campaign for New Caledonia's referendum on independence from France is already officially three days old with the critical vote in less...
Independence would open more choices for New Caledonia, says Goa
By RNZ Pacific
Pro-independence advocates in New Caledonia say a vote for full sovereignty next month would allow the country to step up onto the...
French minister says New Caledonia referendum on track despite covid
By RNZ Pacific
France's new overseas minister Sebastien Lecornu says New Caledonia's restrictions over the covid-19 pandemic will not affect the preparations for the October...
Mixed reaction in Wallis and Futuna to Roch Wamytan’s Congress win
By RNZ Pacific
There has been a mixed response in Wallis and Futuna to last week's election of a pro-independence politician as Congress president of...
New ‘anti’ force shakes up New Caledonian political landscape
By Duke Menango in Noumea
The provincial elections last Sunday have shaken the political landscape in New Caledonia with an upheaval in the Southern province...
New Caledonia’s provincial elections sharpen independence political divide
By Walter Zweifel for RNZ Dateline Pacific
New Caledonia's anti-independence parties have retained their slim majority in the 54-member Congress made up of members from...
Anti-independence bloc holds majority in New Caledonian provincial elections
By RNZ Pacific
Preliminary results from New Caledonia's provincial elections show that the anti-independence parties will retain their slim majority in the 54-member Congress.
Local television...
Assassination of Kanak leader Jean-Marie Tjibaou marked 30 years on
By RNZ Pacific
Commemorations have been held in New Caledonia over the weekend to mark the 30th anniversary of the assassination of the pro-independence leader...
Kanaky independence campaign rolls on … encouraged by ballot result
David Robie, who reported from New Caledonia several times during the 1980s for Islands Business magazine, The Australian, New Zealand Times and other media,...
New Caledonia’s timeline of injustice to independence?
Key dates in New Caledonia's colonial history:
1774: James Cook “discovers” Grande Terre island for Europe and renames it New Caledonia because the landscapes remind...
New Caledonia vote stirs painful memories – and a hopeful future
David Robie, who reported from New Caledonia during the 1980s for Islands Business magazine, The Australian, New Zealand Times and other media, returned to...
Gallery: Global media cover historic New Caledonia independence referendum
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
About 100 journalists covered the historic New Caledonian independence referendum last weekend, with media from Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and...
MSG backing Kanak independence ‘on the quiet’, says campaigner
By RNZ Pacific
A leading New Caledonian pro-independence politician, Victor Tutugoro, says governments of Melanesian countries have quietly supported the New Caledonian independence cause.
Tutugoro, second...
New Caledonia blockade tension fails to mar French PM’s talks on...
By David Robie in Nouméa
French security forces moved in today to clean up the main road near an indigenous Kanak tribal area after a...
French human rights body warns over ‘colonial reality’ before key Pacific...
Caledonia TV's report on the recent indigenous Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) conference on a "post-independence" future for New Caledonia. Video: NCI TV...
Kanak independence struggle gains Maohi support as vote looms
By Nic Maclellan in Ponerihouen, New Caledonia
In a show of support for the Kanak independence movement, Maohi leader Oscar Manutahi Temaru has joined the...
New Caledonia: Does the French public actually want to ‘set it...
Things may be coming to a head over the coming New Caledonia referendum, the independence struggle in New Zealand’s own region, but there is...