Tag: UC FLNKS
French police raid pro-independence Kanak party HQ, arrest eight in crackdown
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...
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: FLNKS congress postponed due to splits
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...
Rift widens between New Caledonia’s pro-French and independence parties
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ French Pacific correspondent
One of the main components of New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS umbrella, the Union Calédonienne (UC), says it has...
Pro-independence protesters, French police clash in New Caledonia
By Patrick Decloitre, correspondent French Pacific desk
Pro-independence militants and protesters clashed with police in downtown Nouméa this week as New Caledonia hosts three French...
French minister says FLNKS ‘willing to discuss’ election roll changes
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
New Caledonia's pro-independence parties are prepared to negotiate changes to the provincial electoral rolls, according to French Overseas Minister...
FLNKS message to French PM about Kanak ‘humiliation’ over referendum
By Jan Kohout, RNZ Pacific journalist
New Caledonia's Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) say they will tell the French Prime Minister of the...
Union Calédonian proposes historic September 24 date for ‘independence accord’
RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia's pro-independence Union Calédonian has proposed September 24 this year as the date by which an accord be reached with France to...
Pro-independence Kanaks sign pact with West Papuan movement
RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Liberation Movement for West...
FLNKS insists on full sovereignty for Kanaky New Caledonia
RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia's pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) movement and five other small nationalist parties have agreed that they will only...
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...
New Caledonia elects first pro-independence Kanak president
RNZ Pacific
New Caledonia has elected its first pro-independence Kanak president.
Louis Mapou was elected today in Noumea after months of negotiations between the two main...
Change in New Caledonia government 40 years on brings hope to...
By RNZ News
The Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) says this week's change in the New Caledonian territorial government has brought hope to...