Tag: Kanak self-determination
Kanak leader Christian Tein’s jailing in France overturned in new legal...
Asia Pacific Report
France's Supreme Court has overturned a judgment imprisoning pretrial in mainland France Kanak pro-independence leader Christian Tein, who is widely regarded as...
New Caledonia’s mothballed nickel plant starts mass sackings process
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Caledonia's mothballed nickel plant in Koniambo (north of the main island of Grande Terre) has...
‘We cannot have peace without independence,’ says Kanak govt official
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...
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: What happens to limbo law change with...
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French President Emmanuel Macron's surprise dissolution of the National Assembly and call for snap general...
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: ‘People of Palestine and Kanaks are in...
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News
Kanak people in Aotearoa New Zealand are lamenting the loss of family and friends in Kanaky...
Force not the answer in Kanaky New Caledonia, says PANG
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
A Pacific regional network has deplored what they call increasing brutality on Kanak youth in Kanaky New Caledonia and...
NZ foreign minister Peters calls for ‘calm wise heads’ in New...
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters says "calm wise heads" are needed to sort out the crisis in New Caledonia.
A security force of...
Footage of French forces officer kicking Kanak man in head surfaces...
Correction: An earlier version of this RNZ Pacific story published on 29 May 2024 attributed a statement from the French High Commission in New...
New Zealand’s role in helping bring peace to Kanaky New Caledonia
COMMENTARY: By Teanau Tuiono
There is an important story to be told behind the story Aotearoa New Zealand's mainstream media has been reporting on in...
Martyn Bradbury: Shallow NZ media coverage of Kanaky crackdown focused on...
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury
The coverage by the New Zealand media over the brutal crackdown in New Caledonia by the French on the indigenous Kanak...
West Papua independence group slams French ‘modern-day colonialism’
Asia Pacific Report
A West Papuan independence group has condemned French "modern-day colonialism in action" in Kanaky New Caledonia and urged indigenous leaders to "fight...
Media fuss over stranded tourists, but Kanaks face existential struggle
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
“Only the struggle counts . . . death is nothing.” Éloi Machoro -- "the Che Guevara of the Pacific" -- said...
Solidarity action group calls on NZ to support Kanak, Papuan independence
Asia Pacific Report
A New Zealand solidarity action group has called on the New Zealand government to back indigenous independence calls in the Pacific and...
Gordon Campbell: Israel’s political split, and the New Caledonia crisis
COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell
The split opening up in Israel’s “War Cabinet” is not just between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his long-term rival Benny...
Liberation for New Caledonia’s Kanak people ‘must come’, says educator
RNZ Pacific
A New Zealand author, journalist and media educator who has covered the Asia-Pacific region since the 1970s says liberation "must come" for Kanaky/New...
Violence erupts in New Caledonia as independence supporters oppose legislation in...
Macron’s plan has backfired. But there can be no sustainable solution without cooperation of all parties, writes a former Australian diplomat in New Caledonia.
ANALYSIS:...
Pro-independence protesters, French police clash in New Caledonia
By Patrick Decloitre, correspondent French Pacific desk
Pro-independence militants and protesters clashed with police in downtown Nouméa this week as New Caledonia hosts three French...
‘A win for all Kanak people,’ says first indigenous Harvard graduate
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...
Decolonisation tensions rise in New Caledonia as Kanaks accuse France of...
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...
FLNKS congress held ahead of ‘high stakes’ future talks with France
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...
‘Up to French people’ to decide on New Caledonia’s future, says...
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,...
France rules out New Caledonia referendums for five years
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,...