Tag: Kanak self-determination

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...

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...

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...

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 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,...

OPEN LETTER: The Ōtepoti Declaration by the Indigenous Caucus of the Nuclear Connections Across Oceania Conference On the 61st anniversary of the first raising of...

RNZ Pacific French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne says her meeting with New Caledonia's anti-independence leaders in Paris marks the beginning of discussions on the future...

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 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...

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...

RNZ Pacific A committee has been set up in New Caledonia to support the re-election of French President Emmanuel Macron although he is yet to...

RNZ Pacific France's Overseas Minister Sebastien Lecornu has called on New Caledonia's political parties to draw up proposals on a new statute for the territory...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The French government’s decision to press ahead with the third and final referendum vote for self-determination in Kanaky New Caledonia was...

RNZ Pacific A leftwing candidate in the French presidential race, Jean-Luc Melenchon, says the outcome of New Caledonia's independence referendum is a catastrophe. He held a...

By Stefan Armbruster of SBS World News Kanaky New Caledonia is holding a final referendum on independence from France today. But not everyone wants to...

ANALYSIS: By David Robie After three decades of frustratingly slow progress but with a measure of quiet optimism over the decolonisation process unfolding under the...

RNZ Pacific A late legal bid to postpone Sunday's independence referendum in New Caledonia has reportedly failed. A leading anti-independence leader and president of New Caledonia's...