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September 7, 2021
RNZ Pacific New Caledonia has detected three cases of Covid-19 in the community and ordered a two-week lockdown from midday today. The three cases are not connected and involve people who have not travelled, suggesting the virus is circulating in the community. Territorial President Louis Mapou said investigations had been launched immediately to identify contacts ... <a title="New Caledonia begins two-week lockdown in new covid-19 outbreak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/07/new-caledonia-begins-two-week-lockdown-in-new-covid-19-outbreak/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia begins two-week lockdown in new covid-19 outbreak">Read more</a>
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September 7, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk New Caledonia has declared all schools in the Southern province closed for two weeks from tomorrow after health authorities reported at least three cases of the covid-19 delta variant have been detected in the territory. All flights to the Loyalty Islands have been cancelled, reports Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes. Territorial President Louis ... <a title="Three delta cases of covid detected in New Caledonia – schools closed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/07/three-delta-cases-of-covid-detected-in-new-caledonia-schools-closed/" aria-label="Read more about Three delta cases of covid detected in New Caledonia – schools closed">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2021
A View from Afar: In the first half of this week’s podcast Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan will be joined by Dr David Robie to examine instability in the Pacific’s Polynesian region – specifically to identify what’s going on in: New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa. In the second half, Buchanan and Manning analyse the latest on ... <a title="Live Recording: Pacific Instability + Afghanistan Deadline Looms – Buchanan + Manning + Robie" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/25/livemidday-thursday-pacific-instability-afghanistan-deadline-looms-buchanan-manning-robie/" aria-label="Read more about Live Recording: Pacific Instability + Afghanistan Deadline Looms – Buchanan + Manning + Robie">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2021
RNZ Pacific New Caledonia has elected its first pro-independence Kanak president. Louis Mapou was elected today in Noumea after months of negotiations between the two main pro-independence Kanak political groupings UNI and UC FLNKS. Australian journalist Nic Maclellan, a longtime writer on New Caledonian politics, says it is a significant victory for the Kanak people. ... <a title="New Caledonia elects first pro-independence Kanak president" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/09/new-caledonia-elects-first-pro-independence-kanak-president/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia elects first pro-independence Kanak president">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2021
Facebook News Facebook has today launched a public education campaign to help people in five Pacific Island countries and territories learn how to identify and combat health-related misinformation. The locations and languages are Wallis & Futuna (French), New Caledonia (French), Tonga (English and Tongan), Solomon Islands (English and Solomon Islands Pijin), and Cook Islands (English). ... <a title="Facebook boosts Pacific-wide health campaign against misinformation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/29/facebook-boosts-pacific-wide-health-campaign-against-misinformation/" aria-label="Read more about Facebook boosts Pacific-wide health campaign against misinformation">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2021
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter Political tension is rising in New Caledonia as a third referendum on independence from France is planned in December. The decolonisation process under the 1998 Noumea Accord is nearing its conclusion and scenarios are being drawn up for how to deal with the result. In 2018 and 2020, a ... <a title="New Caledonia tension simmers over early independence vote date" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/22/new-caledonia-tension-simmers-over-early-independence-vote-date/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia tension simmers over early independence vote date">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2021
By Laurens Ikinia Students from six Melanesian countries and territories in the Pacific — Fiji, Kanaky/New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon islands, Vanuatu and West Papua — have gathered at Auckland University of Technology to form a club to “empower wantoks”. The AUT Melanesian Students Club was launched last Sunday with representative students from each ... <a title="Wantok students from 6 nations form solidarity Melanesian club at AUT" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/26/wantok-students-from-6-nations-form-solidarity-melanesian-club-at-aut/" aria-label="Read more about Wantok students from 6 nations form solidarity Melanesian club at AUT">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2021
Asia Pacific Report New Caledonia, one of the Pacific territories to have avoided the covid-19 pandemic so far, is to go into strict two-week lockdown after detecting nine cases, reports Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes. The outbreak on the French archipelago was detected after a school headteacher fell ill on the Wallis and Futuna islands leading authorities ... <a title="Covid outbreak forces New Caledonia into snap two-week lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/08/covid-outbreak-forces-new-caledonia-into-snap-two-week-lockdown/" aria-label="Read more about Covid outbreak forces New Caledonia into snap two-week lockdown">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2021
By RNZ Pacific New Caledonia’s 11 newly elected ministers have again failed to elect a new president. Like two weeks ago, none of the three candidates managed to secure the support of at least six ministers. At today’s meeting called by the French High Commissioner Laurent Prévost, the anti-independence Future with Confidence coalition’s Thierry Santa ... <a title="Kanaky New Caledonia ministers again deadlocked over president election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/02/kanaky-new-caledonia-ministers-again-deadlocked-over-president-election/" aria-label="Read more about Kanaky New Caledonia ministers again deadlocked over president election">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2021
By RNZ News The Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) says this week’s change in the New Caledonian territorial government has brought hope to the Kanak people. On Wednesday, the Congress of New Caledonia elected a majority pro-independence government. Now, for the first time in almost 40 years a Kanak pro-independence leader could be ... <a title="Change in New Caledonia government 40 years on brings hope to Kanaks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/21/change-in-new-caledonia-government-40-years-on-brings-hope-to-kanaks/" aria-label="Read more about Change in New Caledonia government 40 years on brings hope to Kanaks">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2021
By RNZ News A magnitude 7.7 earthquake has struck south-east of New Caledonia’s Loyalty Islands and a tsunnami warning is in place for several countries. Geoscience Australia said the quake, which struck early this morning, had an epicentre 400 km east of the town of Tadine. Seismic data indicates the undersea earthquake struck at a ... <a title="Tsunami warning after 7.7 quake off New Caledonia’s Loyalty Islands" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/11/tsunami-warning-after-7-7-quake-off-new-caledonias-loyalty-islands/" aria-label="Read more about Tsunami warning after 7.7 quake off New Caledonia’s Loyalty Islands">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2021
By RNZ Pacific A coalition government in New Caledonia has collapsed after indigenous pro-independence politicians resigned, citing persistent economic issues and unrest over the sale of nickel assets. The South Pacific archipelago has been gripped by riots over the sale process of Brazilian mining giant Vale’s local nickel business, with protesters saying a locally-led offer ... <a title="New Caledonia government collapses amid storm and assets sale crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/04/new-caledonia-government-collapses-amid-storm-and-assets-sale-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia government collapses amid storm and assets sale crisis">Read more</a>
