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April 20, 2024
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor in Honiara Solomon Islands’ incumbent prime minister Manasseh Sogavare has been re-elected in the East Choiseul constituency. It is the opening move in the political chess match to form the country’s next government. Returning officer Christopher Makoni made the declaration late last night after a day of counting, according ... <a title="Solomon Islands political chess begins with Manasseh Sogavare re-elected in East Choiseul" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/20/solomon-islands-political-chess-begins-with-manasseh-sogavare-re-elected-in-east-choiseul/" aria-label="Read more about Solomon Islands political chess begins with Manasseh Sogavare re-elected in East Choiseul">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2024
Kia Ora Gaza A passionate haka reverberated through Auckland International Airport as a medical team of three New Zealand doctors received an emotional farewell from a big crowd of supporters before flying to Turkey to join the international Freedom Flotilla to Gaza. The doctors, who left Auckland yesterday, hope to be able to reach Gaza ... <a title="Rousing farewell for Kiwi doctors flying out to Gaza aid flotilla" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/19/rousing-farewell-for-kiwi-doctors-flying-out-to-gaza-aid-flotilla/" aria-label="Read more about Rousing farewell for Kiwi doctors flying out to Gaza aid flotilla">Read more</a>
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April 18, 2024
I came to this evening of short films not sure what to expect. I have a history with West Papua (here referring to the Indonesian part of the island of New Guinea, which comprises five provinces, one named “West Papua”) from my days fronting the legendary West Papuan band Black Brothers in the early 1990s. ... <a title="A montage of West Papuan everyday life from hip-hop to protest songs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/18/a-montage-of-west-papuan-everyday-life-from-hip-hop-to-protest-songs/" aria-label="Read more about A montage of West Papuan everyday life from hip-hop to protest songs">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2024
RNZ Pacific More videos appear to have been released by the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) showing New Zealand hostage Phillip Mehrtens. The New Zealander was taken hostage more than a year ago on February 7 in Paro in the highlands of the Indonesian-ruled region of West Papua while providing vital air links and ... <a title="More videos of Kiwi hostage in Papua – warning over Indonesian air strikes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/13/more-videos-of-kiwi-hostage-in-papua-warning-over-indonesian-air-strikes/" aria-label="Read more about More videos of Kiwi hostage in Papua – warning over Indonesian air strikes">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2024
By Sharon Muller of Arah Juang On Friday, March 22, a video circulated of TNI (Indonesian military) soldiers torturing a civilian in Papua. In the video, the victim is submerged in a drum filled with water with his hands tied behind his back. The victim was alternately beaten and kicked by the TNI members. The ... <a title="Indonesian military’s crimes in West Papua and the democratic solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/13/indonesian-militarys-crimes-in-west-papua-and-the-democratic-solution/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian military’s crimes in West Papua and the democratic solution">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Pacific nations and smaller states are being urged to unite to avoid being caught in the crossfire of a possible nuclear conflict between China and the US. On the cusp of a new missile age in the Indo-Pacific, a nuclear policy specialist suggests countries at the centre of ... <a title="Pacific states could help ‘help prevent’ nuclear war, says advocate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/pacific-states-could-help-help-prevent-nuclear-war-says-advocate/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific states could help ‘help prevent’ nuclear war, says advocate">Read more</a>
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April 10, 2024
SPECIAL REPORT: By Richard Naidu, editor of Islands Business South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has been described as involving two competing narratives: one, about a displaced Palestinian people denied their right to self-determination, and the other, about the Jewish people who, having established an independent state in ... <a title="Fiji’s position over Israeli war on Gaza – international blunder or a domestic strategy?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/10/fijis-position-over-israeli-war-on-gaza-international-blunder-or-a-domestic-strategy/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s position over Israeli war on Gaza – international blunder or a domestic strategy?">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The leader of a New Zealand solidarity group of Palestinian self-determination supporters has accused the country’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters of making a “bluff and bluster” speech at the United Nations that was misleading about inaction at home. National chair John Minto of the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) said in a ... <a title="PSNA’s Minto slams Peters over ‘bluster’ speech on Gaza at UN" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/09/psnas-minto-slams-peters-over-bluster-speech-on-gaza-at-un/" aria-label="Read more about PSNA’s Minto slams Peters over ‘bluster’ speech on Gaza at UN">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2024
RNZ News New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has told the United Nations the situation in Gaza is an “utter catastrophe” and criticised the Security Council for failing to act decisively. In a speech to the UN General Assembly in New York, Peters said Gaza was a “wasteland” and that New Zealand was “gravely ... <a title="NZ’s Peters criticises Security Council at UN, says Gaza ‘a wasteland’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/09/nzs-peters-criticises-security-council-at-un-says-gaza-a-wasteland/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Peters criticises Security Council at UN, says Gaza ‘a wasteland’">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
By Doddy Morris of the Vanuatu Daily Post It has been 60 years since Indonesia has been refused humanitarian agencies and international media access to enter West Papua, says a leading West Papuan leader and advocate. According to Benny Wenda, president of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), Indonesia is “comparable to North ... <a title="Wenda challenges Indonesia’s ‘Papua never colonised’ claim as false" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/wenda-challenges-indonesias-papua-never-colonised-claim-as-false/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda challenges Indonesia’s ‘Papua never colonised’ claim as false">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Nour Odeh, a Palestinian political analyst, has told Al Jazeera’s Inside Story that the US is more likely to move in the “right direction” when it comes to Israel if it feels pressure from its allies, reports Al Jazeera. “The more Washington feels pressure from its friends, that its policy on Israel ... <a title="More pressure from US allies could see change to ‘untenable policy’ on Gaza, says analyst" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/07/more-pressure-from-us-allies-could-see-change-to-untenable-policy-on-gaza-says-analyst/" aria-label="Read more about More pressure from US allies could see change to ‘untenable policy’ on Gaza, says analyst">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Pacific Journalism Review, the Pacific and New Zealand’s only specialist media research journal, is celebrating 30 years of publishing this year — and it will mark the occasion at the Pacific Media International Conference in Fiji in July. Founded at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1994, PJR also published for ... <a title="PJR to celebrate 30 years of journalism publishing at Pacific Media 2024" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/06/pjr-to-celebrate-30-years-of-journalism-publishing-at-pacific-media-2024/" aria-label="Read more about PJR to celebrate 30 years of journalism publishing at Pacific Media 2024">Read more</a>