Tag: Kanaky New Caledonia independence
‘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: Pro-independence militant leaders arrested
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...
French police raid pro-independence Kanak party HQ, arrest eight in crackdown
Asia Pacific Report
French police and gendarmes force were deployed around the political headquarters of the pro-independence Caledonian Union in Kanaky New Caledonia's Nouméa suburb...
Kanaky, Palestine and West Papua – ‘same struggle’, David Robie talks...
Pacific Media Watch
Earthwise presenters Lois and Martin Griffiths of Plains FM96.9 radio talk to Dr David Robie, a New Zealand author, independent journalist and...
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: FLNKS congress postponed due to splits
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...
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: Fiji, PNG call for UN decolonisation mission
BenarNews staff
Fiji and Papua New Guinea have urged the UN’s Decolonisation Committee to expedite a visit to the French-controlled Pacific territory of Kanaky New...
Pacific churches call at UN for France to drop ‘limbo law’...
Asia Pacific Report
The Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) has called on France to drop the "limbo" proposed law on electoral changes in Kanaky New...
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...
History ‘replaying itself’ in Kanaky but Pacific solidarity growing, says Tau
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,...
Macron’s ‘dialogue mission’ takes a break from unrest-ridden New Caledonia
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
A "dialogue mission" set up by French President Emmanuel Macron when he visited New Caledonia last...
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...
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: ‘Nobody talks about what’s happening here anymore’
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
People in Kanaky New Caledonia are disappointed that the riots last month are now being overshadowed by the Parliament...
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...
Open letter to President Macron: End Kanak vote ‘unfreezing’ and complete...
Asia Pacific Report
The president and board of the Protestant Church of Kanaky New Caledonia has appealed in an open letter to French President Emmanuel...
Jimmy Naouna: Macron’s handling of Kanaky New Caledonia isn’t working –...
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...
France sends armoured vehicles with machine gun capability to New Caledonia
By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
Police in New Caledonia have a new weapon in their arsenal -- state of the art armoured vehicles...
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...
‘France has caused this crisis’ – Pacific Islands Forum offers support...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
Cook Islands Prime Minister and Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) chair Mark Brown has written to the president of the...
Three Nouméa police officers face prosecution after viral violent video
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
Three Nouméa municipal policemen are now facing a prosecution after a disturbing video was posted in...
Palestine solidarity group condemns ‘colonial violence’ in Rafah, Kanaky
Asia Pacific Report
A New Zealand solidarity group for Palestine with a focus on settler colonialism has condemned the latest atrocities by the Israeli military...
‘I can’t just stand back’: Kanak pro-independence activist follows mum’s footsteps
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...
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...