Tag: New Caledonia crisis
New Caledonia crisis: Unrest-hit Air Calédonie in search of new markets
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Caledonia's domestic carrier Air Calédonie is set to launch a biweekly international connection to neighbouring...
‘Frontline Media Faultlines’ – David Robie’s keynote address to Pacific Media...
The Australia Today
Here is the livestream of Dr David Robie’s keynote address “Frontline Media Faultlines: How Critical Journalism Can Survive Against the Odds” at...
New Caledonia votes first under tight security in French snap election
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
Voters in New Caledonia will go to the polls this weekend under tight security, almost eight...
French envoy hits back at Vanuatu’s Kanak solidarity march petition
By Nicholas Mwai in Port Vila
French Ambassador Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer to Vanuatu has hit back at criticism about French policy over Kanaky New Caledonia...
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: Shock over pro-independence leader charges, transfer to...
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...
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...
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: ‘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...
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...
Macron says ‘peace, calm and security’ his top priority for New...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific Desk
French President Emmanuel Macron landed in Nouméa today under heavy security after pro-independence protests by indigenous...
Vanuatu minister calls for referendum voters in spite of Nouméa crisis
By Tensly Sumbe
Vanuatu's Elections Minister Johnny Koanapo is urging every Ni-Vanuatu person living in New Caledonia to take part in the upcoming vote for...
Déjà vu in New Caledonia: why decades of political failure will...
ANALYSIS: By David Small, University of Canterbury
With an air force plane on its way to rescue New Zealanders stranded by the violent uprising in...
Plane heading for New Caledonia to bring NZ visitors home
RNZ News
A New Zealand government plane is heading to New Caledonia to assist with bringing New Zealanders home.
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters today confirmed...
Liberation for New Caledonia’s Kanak people ‘must come’, says educator
RNZ Pacific
A New Zealand author, journalist and media educator who has covered the Asia-Pacific region since the 1970s says liberation "must come" for Kanaky/New...
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: French politics rocked as leaders plead for...
NC La Première television reports on the clearing of barricades after a week of protests and rioting in the capital Nouméa. Video: NC 1ère...
Three dead in New Caledonia amid independence, electoral unrest
RNZ News
Three people have now died in New Caledonia in the wake of pro-independence protests and escalating unrest.
Charles Wea, a spokesperson for international relations...
New Caledonia unrest: Pro-independence calls for calm ‘to preserve peace’
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
A group belonging to New Caledonia's pro-independence movement, UNI (Union Nationale pour l'Indépendance), has released a...