Tag: Kanaky

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A group of pro-independence leaders charged with allegedly organising protests that turned into violent unrest in...

Vanuatu Daily Post All eight Members of Parliament from Vanuatu's Tafea Province have made a bold and powerful call to French President Emmanuel Macron to...

By Mong Palatino of Global Voices The situation has remained tense in the French Pacific territory of Kanaky New Caledonia more than a month after...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Police in New Caledonia have a new weapon in their arsenal -- state of the art armoured vehicles...

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...

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...

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...

Correction: An earlier version of this RNZ Pacific story published on 29 May 2024 attributed a statement from the French High Commission in New...