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June 18, 2024
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist National politicians and pastors are fuelling the tribal fighting in Papua New Guinea by supplying guns and ammunition, says Enga’s Provincial Administrator Sandis Tsaka. Tsaka’s brother was killed a fortnight ago when a tribe on a war raid passed through his clan. “[My brother] was at home with his ... <a title="PNG ‘politicians, pastors’ supply weapons to fuel deadly tribal fights, says Enga leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/18/png-politicians-pastors-supply-weapons-to-fuel-deadly-tribal-fights-says-enga-leader/" aria-label="Read more about PNG ‘politicians, pastors’ supply weapons to fuel deadly tribal fights, says Enga leader">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The national congress of New Caledonia’s pro-independence platform, the FLNKS, was postponed at the weekend due to major differences between its hard-line component and its more moderate parties. The FLNKS is the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front. It consists of several pro-independence parties, including the Kanak ... <a title="Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: FLNKS congress postponed due to splits" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/17/kanaky-new-caledonia-unrest-flnks-congress-postponed-due-to-splits/" aria-label="Read more about Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: FLNKS congress postponed due to splits">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2024
Asia Pacific Report New Zealand activists Youssef Sammour and Rana Hamida have been selected to join the volunteer crew on the international Freedom Flotilla ship Handala, currently visiting European ports and heading to break Israel’s siege of Gaza. Youssef Sammour at a recent Auckland rally for Palestine. Image: Kia Ora Gaza They will be farewelled ... <a title="Latest Kiwi crew to join Gaza Freedom Flotilla leaves on Sunday" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/16/latest-kiwi-crew-to-join-gaza-freedom-flotilla-leaves-on-sunday/" aria-label="Read more about Latest Kiwi crew to join Gaza Freedom Flotilla leaves on Sunday">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Israel’s targeting of educational institutes across Gaza is “shameful” and contributing to a global crisis for students, says the head of an educational foundation. Talal al-Hathal, director of the Al Fakhoora Programme at Education Above All foundation in Qatar, said: “War has exacerbated the plight of Gaza’s educational sector.” Israel’s targeting of ... <a title="Education head condemns Israel’s ‘shameful’ ruin of UN schools in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/15/education-head-condemns-israels-shameful-ruin-of-un-schools-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Education head condemns Israel’s ‘shameful’ ruin of UN schools in Gaza">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2024
COMMENTARY: By John Hobbs The New Zealand government remains disturbingly quiet on the unfolding genocide in Gaza. New Zealand’s silence is clearly undermining its self-image as a principled and independent state within the United Nations. It is following its Anglosphere English-speaking partners (United States, UK, Canada, and Australia) in avoiding putting in place any sanctions ... <a title="Why is NZ being so obstinate over its weak position on Gaza and Palestine? " class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/15/why-is-nz-being-so-obstinate-over-its-weak-position-on-gaza-and-palestine/" aria-label="Read more about Why is NZ being so obstinate over its weak position on Gaza and Palestine? ">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2024
BenarNews staff Fiji and Papua New Guinea have urged the UN’s Decolonisation Committee to expedite a visit to the French-controlled Pacific territory of Kanaky New Caledonia following its pro-independence riots last month. Nine people have died, dozens were injured and businesses were torched during unrest in the capital Noumea triggered by the French government’s move ... <a title="Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: Fiji, PNG call for UN decolonisation mission" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/13/kanaky-new-caledonia-unrest-fiji-png-call-for-un-decolonisation-mission/" aria-label="Read more about Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: Fiji, PNG call for UN decolonisation mission">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) has called on France to drop the “limbo” proposed law on electoral changes in Kanaky New Caledonia opposed by the indigenous pro-independence movement and restore the path to peace and self-determination. General secretary Reverend James Bhagwan made the call at the UN Committee of 24 meeting ... <a title="Pacific churches call at UN for France to drop ‘limbo law’ to restore peace in Kanaky" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/11/pacific-churches-call-at-un-for-france-to-drop-limbo-law-to-restore-peace-in-kanaky/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific churches call at UN for France to drop ‘limbo law’ to restore peace in Kanaky">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2024
By Monika Singh in Suva New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) awardee Professor David Robie has called on young journalists to see journalism as a calling and not just a job. Dr Robie, who is also the editor of Asia Pacific Report and deputy chair of the Asia Pacific Media Network, was named in the ... <a title="Defend ‘Pacific voice’ over geopolitics, climate crisis – keep pressure on decolonisation, Robie tells Wansolwara" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/10/defend-pacific-voice-over-geopolitics-climate-crisis-keep-pressure-on-decolonisation-robie-tells-wansolwara/" aria-label="Read more about Defend ‘Pacific voice’ over geopolitics, climate crisis – keep pressure on decolonisation, Robie tells Wansolwara">Read more</a>
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June 9, 2024
Asia Pacific Report About 20,000 protesters marched through the heart of New Zealand’s largest city Auckland today demonstrating against the unpopular Fast Track Approvals Bill that critics fear will ruin the country’s environment, undermine the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi with indigenous Māori, and open the door to corruption. Holding placards declaring the coalition government is ... <a title="‘Greedy lying racists’, ‘Kill the bill’, say thousands of NZ protesters over fast track draft" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/09/greedy-lying-racists-kill-the-bill-say-thousands-of-nz-protesters-over-fast-track-draft/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Greedy lying racists’, ‘Kill the bill’, say thousands of NZ protesters over fast track draft">Read more</a>
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June 8, 2024
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Kanak people in Aotearoa New Zealand are lamenting the loss of family and friends in Kanaky New Caledonia, following mass rioting and civil unrest since mid-May prompted by an electoral reform believed to threaten dilution of the indigenous voice. A fono (meeting) at Māngere East Community ... <a title="Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: ‘People of Palestine and Kanaks are in the frontline’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/08/kanaky-new-caledonia-unrest-people-of-palestine-and-kanaks-are-in-the-frontline/" aria-label="Read more about Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: ‘People of Palestine and Kanaks are in the frontline’">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist A Pacific regional network has deplored what they call increasing brutality on Kanak youth in Kanaky New Caledonia and the deployment of thousands of troops. New Caledonia has experienced a wave of violence with Nouméa the scene of riots, blockades, looting and deadly clashes since mid-May. France has sent ... <a title="Force not the answer in Kanaky New Caledonia, says PANG" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/07/force-not-the-answer-in-kanaky-new-caledonia-says-pang/" aria-label="Read more about Force not the answer in Kanaky New Caledonia, says PANG">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The president and board of the Protestant Church of Kanaky New Caledonia has appealed in an open letter to French President Emmanuel Macron to scrap the constitutional procedure to “unfreeze” the electorate, and to complete the “decolonisation project” initiated by the Nouméa Accords. “If anyone can help us roll back the tombstone ... <a title="Open letter to President Macron: End Kanak vote ‘unfreezing’ and complete decolonisation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/07/open-letter-to-president-macron-end-kanak-vote-unfreezing-and-complete-decolonisation/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter to President Macron: End Kanak vote ‘unfreezing’ and complete decolonisation">Read more</a>
