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June 5, 2021
RNZ Pacific The head of the Fiji’s defence force has rejected claims by opposition MPs in Parliament this week and has called for an apology over the “simply, wrong” allegations. In a statement, Commander Viliame Naupoto said there was no “factual evidence” to suggest that the defence force had caused the initial breach. Commander Naupoto ... <a title="‘Don’t blame us,’ says military chief over Fiji’s covid surge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/05/dont-blame-us-says-military-chief-over-fijis-covid-surge/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Don’t blame us,’ says military chief over Fiji’s covid surge">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2021
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board Buoyed as he is by [Wednesday’s] court decision, Samoa’s caretaker Prime Minister has shown a character flaw weighing down upon our national politics: an inability to face up to hard truths. Despite Tuilaepa Dr Sa’ilele Malielegaoi having just alleged the judiciary was conspiring against him, the Appellate Court ... <a title="Samoa Observer: For Tuilaepa, the truth hurts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/05/samoa-observer-for-tuilaepa-the-truth-hurts/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa Observer: For Tuilaepa, the truth hurts">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The International Federation of Journalists has called for the urgent reinstatement of Nasser Abu Bakr, head of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, following his victimisation by the French news agency AFP. Abu Bakr, who has worked for Agence France-Presse (AFP) for more than 20 years, was sacked without valid reason, in what ... <a title="Reinstate victimised Palestinian journalists’ union leader, says IFJ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/05/reinstate-victimised-palestinian-journalists-union-leader-says-ifj/" aria-label="Read more about Reinstate victimised Palestinian journalists’ union leader, says IFJ">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Indonesia has cut off the internet in West Papua to conceal its crackdown on the peaceful liberation movement, says a leading Papuan campaigner. Benny Wenda, interim president of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP), has condemned the internet gag while Indonesia’s leading English-language daily newspaper, The Jakarta Post, has ... <a title="Papuan resistance slams Indonesian internet gag amid leader crackdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/04/papuan-resistance-slams-indonesian-internet-gag-amid-leader-crackdown/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan resistance slams Indonesian internet gag amid leader crackdown">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2021
By Richard Ewart on ABC’s Pacific Beat Papua New Guinea’s Minister for Climate Change is calling on the international community to take responsibility for a food security crisis in the Carteret Islands, and some of the other remote atolls of Bougainville. Minister Wera Mori recently returned from a fact finding mission to the region and ... <a title="‘Step up’ over Carterets food crisis, PNG minister warns rich nations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/04/step-up-over-carterets-food-crisis-png-minister-warns-rich-nations/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Step up’ over Carterets food crisis, PNG minister warns rich nations">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Fuimaono Dylan Asafo Samoa’s Court of Appeal (CA) ruled yesterday that Article 44(1A) of the Constitution requires that six women should sit in Parliament. With all due respect, I believe that the CA’s decision was incorrect. This is on the grounds that the CA has overreached its powers by encroaching on the law-making ... <a title="Fuimaono Dylan Asafo: Samoan ruling an unfortunate case of judicial overreach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/03/fuimaono-dylan-asafo-samoan-ruling-an-unfortunate-case-of-judicial-overreach/" aria-label="Read more about Fuimaono Dylan Asafo: Samoan ruling an unfortunate case of judicial overreach">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2021
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama describes FRIEND as a “proxy for the opposition”. Video: Fiji Village By Dhanjay Deo in Suva Opposition National Federation Party (NFP) leader Professor Biman Prasad says this week’s attack by Economy Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum on the non-government organisation, Foundation for Rural Integrated Enterprises Development (FRIEND) is “shameful and disgraceful”. Prasad said ... <a title="Prasad condemns Fiji AG’s attack on FRIEND as ‘shameful, disgraceful’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/03/prasad-condemns-fiji-ags-attack-on-friend-as-shameful-disgraceful/" aria-label="Read more about Prasad condemns Fiji AG’s attack on FRIEND as ‘shameful, disgraceful’">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2021
RNZ Pacific The leaders of Samoa’s two main political parties have finally found something to agree upon since the April 9 general election – they will meet. Following yesterday’s Court of Appeal ruling, both the caretaker prime minister Tuila’epa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi and prime minister-elect, FAST Party leader Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, announced they plan to meet. ... <a title="Samoa’s two leaders both keen to meet following appeal court ruling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/03/samoas-two-leaders-both-keen-to-meet-following-appeal-court-ruling/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa’s two leaders both keen to meet following appeal court ruling">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2021
EDITORIAL: By the editorial board of the Samoa Observer Samoa’s 59th Independence Day has come and gone, without the usual fanfare and intense patriotism we have grown accustomed to from previous years. What we’ve seen for the last few weeks and indeed months has tested the strength of our democracy at the highest of levels ... <a title="Samoa Observer: Democracy tested as Samoa celebrates independence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/03/samoa-observer-democracy-tested-as-samoa-celebrates-independence/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa Observer: Democracy tested as Samoa celebrates independence">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2021
RNZ Pacific A Court of Appeal decision today may pave the way for the FAST party to assume control of the Samoan government. Samoa’s Court of Appeal has voided the legal challenge by a Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) women’s candidate, who said she was wrongly removed as an MP. Ali’imalemanu Alofa Tuuau had been ... <a title="Samoan court voids appeal over additional women’s seat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/03/samoan-court-voids-appeal-over-additional-womens-seat/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan court voids appeal over additional women’s seat">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2021
“We, the TPNPB under the leadership of General Goliath Tabuni reject [a bipartite] dialogue with Jakarta,” said Sambom, reports CNN Indonesia. However, the armed resistance is urging the Indonesian government to hold tripartite negotiations with the TPNPB-OPM Tabuni leadership and all components of the Papuan liberation movement who have been resisting Jakarta rule. This dialogue, ... <a title="Papuan armed resistance insists talks with Jakarta must be mediated by UN" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/03/papuan-armed-resistance-insists-talks-with-jakarta-must-be-mediated-by-un/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan armed resistance insists talks with Jakarta must be mediated by UN">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2021
By David Robie in Auckland Bananas, balaclavas and banners … these were stock-in-trade for human rights activists of the New Zealand-based Coalition for Democracy in Fiji who campaigned against then Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka’s original two coups in 1987 and the “banana republic” coup culture that emerged. Many of the activists, politicians, trade unionists, civil society ... <a title="Days of Fiji ‘banana republic’ protests remembered in Bavadra reunion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/29/days-of-fiji-banana-republic-protests-remembered-in-bavadra-reunion/" aria-label="Read more about Days of Fiji ‘banana republic’ protests remembered in Bavadra reunion">Read more</a>
