Tag: New Caledonia independence
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...
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...
‘A lot of fire, violence’: Nouméa erupts as protests halt New...
RNZ Pacific
New Caledonians lined up in long queues outside shopping centres to buy supplies in the capital Nouméa today amid political unrest in the...
NZ foreign minister Peters cancels New Caledonia visit as unrest erupts
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has cancelled his visit to New Caledonia due to pro-independence unrest throughout the French Pacific territory.
Peters...
Noumea’s ‘newspaper’ Les Nouvelles is back – free and online only
Pacific Media Watch
New Caledonia's daily newspaper Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes is back six months after it closed -- but with a big difference. It is...
Pro-independence Palika ready to join dialogue on future of Kanaky New...
RNZ Pacific
One of New Caledonia's pro-independence parties, Palika, says it is prepared to meet the French ministers due in Noumea this month to follow...
‘Find a solution’ to the Kanaky political impasse, Macron told new...
RNZ Pacific
France's new Minister for Overseas Territories Jean-François Carenco was told to "find a solution" to the political impasse in New Caledonia.
Carenco started his...
Rival New Caledonian sides left in run for French National Assembly...
RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia's first round of the French National Assembly election has seen surprise advances of the pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front...
Caledonian Union vows to end French ‘neo-colonial putsch’ in Pacific
RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia's largest pro-independence party says it will not give up on the gains made in terms of decolonisation from France under the...
Pro-Macron presidential election committee formed in New Caledonia
RNZ Pacific
A committee has been set up in New Caledonia to support the re-election of French President Emmanuel Macron although he is yet to...
New Caledonia votes to stay with France, but it’s a hollow...
ANALYSIS: By David Robie
“Loyalist” New Caledonians handed France the decisive victory in the third and final referendum on independence it wanted in Sunday’s vote.
But...