‘France lost the plot’ – journalist David Robie on Kanaky New Caledonia riots
By Lydia Lewis
Liberation “must come” for Kanaky New Caledonia, says one of the few New Zealand journalists who have worked consistently on stories across...
RSF calls on French authorities to guarantee journalist safety in Kanaky New Caledonia
Pacific Media Watch
The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for guaranteed safety for journalists in the French Pacific territory...
Palestinian visionary who fights Israel’s ecocide with biodiversity and sustainability resistance
By David Robie
For more than 76 years, Palestinians have resisted occupation, dispossession and ethnic cleansing, culminating in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
Yet in the...
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: French politics rocked as leaders plead for end
By Patrick Decloitre
With New Caledonia entering its second week of deadly riots, French authorities have mounted a massive law enforcement operation to regain control...
Fiji’s Jo Nata reflects on the 2000 coup: ‘We let the racism genie out of the bottle’
SPECIAL REPORT: Islands Business in Suva
Today is the 24th anniversary of renegade and failed businessman George Speight’s coup in 2000 Fiji. The elected coalition...
Kanaky in flames: Five takeaways from the New Caledonia independence riots
ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Café Pacific
Jean-Marie Tjibaou, a revered Kanak visionary, was inspirational to indigenous Pacific political activists across Oceania, just like...