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February 22, 2024
Pro-independence militants and protesters clashed with police in downtown Nouméa this week as New Caledonia hosts three French government ministers. The crowd — an estimated 2000 according to organisers, 500 according to police — had been called on Wednesday to voice their opposition to a French-planned constitutional amendment process which would include modification of New ... <a title="Pro-independence protesters, French police clash in New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/22/pro-independence-protesters-french-police-clash-in-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about Pro-independence protesters, French police clash in New Caledonia">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2023
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter 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, a coalition of anti-independence parties had lodged a formal complaint with the Public Prosecutor over a speech given by Goa at a party meeting. Goa had ... <a title="No sedition charges against Kanak pro-independence leader, says prosecutor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/30/no-sedition-charges-against-kanak-pro-independence-leader-says-prosecutor/" aria-label="Read more about No sedition charges against Kanak pro-independence leader, says prosecutor">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2023
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter 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 Union Daniel Goa briefed the party in Koumac after a week of meetings of a cross-section of New Caledonian politicians with the French government in Paris ... <a title="Decolonisation tensions rise in New Caledonia as Kanaks accuse France of opposing ‘wind of history’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/25/decolonisation-tensions-rise-in-new-caledonia-as-kanaks-accuse-france-of-opposing-wind-of-history/" aria-label="Read more about Decolonisation tensions rise in New Caledonia as Kanaks accuse France of opposing ‘wind of history’">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2022
RNZ Pacific Several pro-independence parties in New Caledonia are urging supporters to boycott the second round of the French presidential elections this Sunday. The election pits far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National) candidate Marine Le Pen against the incumbent President Emmanuel Macron. Before the first round the pro-independence parties advised supporters to vote for a left-oriented ... <a title="Kanak pro-independence parties urge supporters to boycott French election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/23/kanak-pro-independence-parties-urge-supporters-to-boycott-french-election/" aria-label="Read more about Kanak pro-independence parties urge supporters to boycott French election">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2022
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 1998 Noumea Accord. Party president Daniel Goa made the statement in an address at the party congress in the north of the main island Grande Terre at the weekend, outlining ... <a title="Caledonian Union vows to end French ‘neo-colonial putsch’ in Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/06/caledonian-union-vows-to-end-french-neo-colonial-putsch-in-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Caledonian Union vows to end French ‘neo-colonial putsch’ in Pacific">Read more</a>
