Tag: Oscar Temaru

ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific French desk correspondent After 10 years of non-attendance, France turned up to this week's French Polynesia sitting of the...

RNZ Pacific The Appeal Court in French Polynesia has acquitted the pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru and two others in the case of the funding of...

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...

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...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter French Polynesia's presidential candidate Moetai Brotherson has named four ministers in his proposed government, and confirmed he will vacate...

By Stefan Armbruster A pro-independence party has decisively won elections in French Polynesia, marking a historic shift in one of France’s Pacific territories. Veteran politician Oscar...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva Mā'ohi Nui's blue wave of the pro-independence Tavini Huir'atira has won its bet -- to be back in the helm...

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...

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...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter French Polynesia's pro-independence Tavini Huiraatira party has come out on top in the first round of the territorial elections. The...

By Antoine Samoyeau in Pape’ete About 3000 activists of French Polynesia's pro-independence Tavini Huiraatira party met for six hours at the weekend with the executives...

RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru has accused the environment minister of defamation over seabed mining. Last week, Environment Minister Heremoana Maamaatuaiahutapu claimed Temaru's...

RNZ Pacific Delegates from French Polynesia have flown to New York for the annual meeting of the UN Decolonisation Committee. The veteran pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru...

RNZ Pacific Two radio stations linked to the French Pacific's decolonisation movements want to co-operate to lift the use of indigenous languages. The heads of Radio...

RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's President Édouard Fritch has described the election of three candidates of the pro-independence Tavini Huiraatira party to the French National Assembly...

RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's pro-independence leader and mayor of Faa'a, Oscar Temaru, says double standards are at play in probing him over the payment of...

RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's pro-independence leader and mayor of Faa'a, Oscar Temaru, has been held for questioning over the funding of his defence in a...

RNZ Pacific The French Pacific territories have shown their support for President Emmanuel Macron at the polls, but with a much lower voter turnout than...

RNZ Pacific Several thousand people in French Polynesia have joined a march demanding France own up to the damage caused by its nuclear weapons tests. The...

Over the past 50 years, France has continued to deny the tragedies of nuclear testing in French Occupied Polynesia by propagating the theory of...

By Jean-Pierre Viatge in Pape'ete Fifteen days after Tahiti Nui's anti-nuclear protest on July 2, the Tavini Huiraatira party has organised a march Mā'ohi Lives...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva and Tony Fala On 27 May 2021, a significant event took place in Rwanda where French President Emmanuel Macron asked...