Tag: Kanaky
Kanaky New Caledonia ministers again deadlocked over president election
By RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia's 11 newly elected ministers have again failed to elect a new president.
Like two weeks ago, none of the three...
Change in New Caledonia government 40 years on brings hope to...
By RNZ News
The Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) says this week's change in the New Caledonian territorial government has brought hope to...
Regenvanu calls for fresh lobbying to ‘convince’ New Caledonia loyalists
By RNZ News
Vanuatu's opposition leader is calling for engagement with New Caledonia's anti-independence side to convince them of a viable Kanaky.
New Caledonia last week...
Kanaky New Caledonia could become ‘associated’ with France, says Wamytan
By RNZ Pacific
The president of New Caledonia's parliamentary Congress says the Pacific territory could become an independent state associated with France.
The suggestion was made...
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...
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
Pacific...
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...
FLNKS calls for West Papua self-determination, condemns violence
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The New Caledonian-based Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front or FLNKS has condemned the ongoing human rights violations in West Papua...
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 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...
Final day of election campaigning in New Caledonian provincial vote
By RNZ Pacific
Campaigning in New Caledonia will end tonight ahead of Sunday's provincial elections.
A weekend ban will then come into force on the sale...
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...
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...
New Caledonian independence ‘in their hearts’, but also a ‘scary’ future
Kanaks and long-time New Caledonian settlers get to vote on their future on November 4. But, as Michael Andrew of Asia Pacific Journalism points...