Tag: Maohi Nui
France briefs UN on New Caledonia decolonisation impasse
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has invited the United Nations Decolonisation Committee members to visit New Caledonia.
Controlled by France...
Brotherson ushers in bold new era of Tavini governance for Mā’ohi...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva
Mā’ohi Nui and the Pacific region has witnessed a historical moment at the Territorial Assembly when Oscar Temaru, leader of...
French Polynesia’s economy on ‘good path’, says Paris-based institute
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
The French Polynesian economy has been given a positive assessment in the aftermath of the covid-19 pandemic by the...
French Polynesia set for president who favours independence after election
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
French Polynesia's pro-independence Tavini Huira'atira party has won the election for a new 57-member Territorial Assembly, paving the way...
Tahitian voters go to polls for crucial run-off territorial election
RNZ Pacific
Voting has started in French Polynesia in the second round to elect a new Territorial Assembly for a five-year term.
About 200,000 voters can...
Hasty Tahiti electoral alliance accused of serving up ‘same soup’ by...
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
Politicians in French Polynesia have reacted with scorn over the ruling party's hastily-convened electoral alliance with an opposition party,...
Tahiti’s pro-independence party tops vote — another winning streak?
SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva in Pape’ete
As the ballots were counted after the first day of voting in Mā’ohi Nui/French Polynesia territorial election first...
Oceania Indigenous ‘guardians’ call for self-determination on West Papua day
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...
French nuclear experts offer reassuring but contradictory ‘clear answers’ to investigative...
ANALYSIS: By Ena Manuireva
Following the publication of the book Toxic some 9 months ago and President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to French Polynesia last July,...
Covid-19 delta pandemic a Trojan horse to extend French colonialism
COMMENTARY: By Ena Manuireva with Tony Fala
In imperial and colonial contexts, dominant groups express their power in three ways: colonisation of the bodies of...
Nine takeaways from the Mā’ohi Nui Lives Matter solidarity rally in...
By Ena Manuireva and Tony Fala
About 35 people joined an Auckland rally last Sunday in solidarity with a Mā'ohi Nui Lives Matter demonstration by...
Ena Manuireva: AUT can – and should – do better
COMMENTARY: A postgraduate researcher view by Ena Manuireva
Year 2020 was the annus horribilis worldwide due to the deadly coronavirus pandemic. Recently the Fiji government...
Solidarity groups rally in support of Mā’ohi independence leader Temaru
COMMENT: By Ena Manuireva and Tony Fala in Auckland
Tomorrow – November 25 – is D-Day for Tahitian pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru’s trial in New...
The judgment of Tahiti’s Oscar Temaru – a neocolonial sense of...
ANALYSIS: By Ena Manuireva
The unfolding in French Polynesia of the latest judiciary entanglements of pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru versus the French administration is being...
Pacific churches add ‘justice for Mā’ohi’ voice at Tahitian rally
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Pacific Conference of Churches has called for justice in Mā'ohi (French Polynesia) and for Oscar Temaru, the activist mayor...
Kanak independence struggle gains Maohi support as vote looms
By Nic Maclellan in Ponerihouen, New Caledonia
In a show of support for the Kanak independence movement, Maohi leader Oscar Manutahi Temaru has joined the...
