Tag: Kanaky New Caledonia independence
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...
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: Macron lifts state of emergency ‘for time...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the 12-day state of emergency imposed in New Caledonia on...
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...
French repressive policies in New Caledonia have ‘betrayed’ Kanak hopes
Green Left Show
Indigenous Kanaks in Kanaky New Caledonia have revolted in the last two weeks in response to moves by the colonial power France...
Amid Kanaky New Caledonia’s unrest, I saw first-hand the same colonial...
"In the aftermath of the 'No' denying an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in Australia, I deeply sympathise with the Kanak people's frustration, fear, and...