Tag: Kanaky
Kanaky New Caledonia’s FLNKS wants ICJ advice on contested vote
By Walter Zweifel
New Caledonia’s pro-independence FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) says the advice of the International Court of Justice is being sought...
No sedition charges against Kanak pro-independence leader, says prosecutor
By Walter Zweifel
The president of New Caledonia’s largest pro-independence party Daniel Goa will not be prosecuted for alleged calls for violence and sedition.
Last month,...
Caledonian Union dismisses ‘two generations to self-determination’ comment as an insult
By Walter Zweifel
New Caledonia’s largest pro-independence party says the latest French pronouncement on self-determination is an insult to the decolonisation process.
Amid a dispute over...
France briefs UN on New Caledonia decolonisation impasse
By Walter Zweifel
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has invited the United Nations Decolonisation Committee members to visit New Caledonia.
Controlled by France since 1853, New...
‘Decolonisation must continue’, says Kanak independence campaigner
By Walter Zweifel
France has been warned against attempts to abandon the New Caledonian decolonisation process pursued for more than two decades.
A veteran independence campaigner,...
Decolonisation tensions rise in New Caledonia as Kanaks accuse France of opposing ‘wind of history’
By Walter Zweifel
New Caledonia’s largest pro-independence party has been told that France is “panicking” and afraid of losing New Caledonia.
The head of the Caledonian...