‘I can’t just stand back’: Kanak pro-independence activist follows mum’s footsteps
By Pretoria Gordon
Jessie Ounei is following in her mum’s footsteps as a Kanak pro-independence activist.
Last Wednesday, Ounei organised a rally outside the French Embassy...
Media fuss over stranded tourists, but Kanaks face existential struggle
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
“Only the struggle counts . . . death is nothing.” Éloi Machoro — “the Che Guevara of the Pacific” — said...
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...
Former Fiji PM Voreqe Bainimarama jailed over block of USP police probe
RNZ Pacific
Former Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has been sentenced to one year in prison, Fiji media are reporting.
Bainimarama, alongside suspended Fiji Police Commissioner...
OPM’s Bomanak accuses UN of failing to uphold decolonisation role over West Papua
Asia Pacific Report
A West Papuan resistance leader has condemned the United Nations role in allowing Indonesia to “integrate” the Melanesian Pacific region in what...
27 years in captivity – free Marwan Barghouti, ‘Palestine’s Mandela’
SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle
He is the most popular Palestinian leader alive today — and yet few people in the West even know his...