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August 8, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist France is “checking” whether a high-level mission to New Caledonia will be possible prior to or after the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ Summit in Tonga at the end of the month. Forum leaders have written to French President Emmanuel Macron requesting to send a Forum Ministerial Committee to Nouméa ... <a title="France ‘decides who enters’ New Caledonia: French diplomat on Pacific leaders request" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/08/france-decides-who-enters-new-caledonia-french-diplomat-on-pacific-leaders-request/" aria-label="Read more about France ‘decides who enters’ New Caledonia: French diplomat on Pacific leaders request">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The West Papuan resistance movement OPM has blamed the tragic death of a New Zealand helicopter pilot in a remote part of the troubled Melanesian region on Indonesia’s security forces and “every nation supporting barbarity”. In a statement today, the OPM (Free Papua Organisation) chairman-commander Jeffrey Bomanak claimed his movement had undertaken ... <a title="OPM blames Indonesia over tragic death of NZ helicopter pilot" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/07/opm-blames-indonesia-over-tragic-death-of-nz-helicopter-pilot/" aria-label="Read more about OPM blames Indonesia over tragic death of NZ helicopter pilot">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2024
Warning: This report discusses graphic details of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea. SPECIAL REPORT: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent The nauseating stench of dried blood hung in the air as we arrived in Karida village, a few kilometers outside of Tari in Papua New Guinea’s Hela province. Through the landcruiser window, I ... <a title="From bows and arrows to assault rifles: How the rules of PNG tribal wars have changed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/01/from-bows-and-arrows-to-assault-rifles-how-the-rules-of-png-tribal-wars-have-changed/" aria-label="Read more about From bows and arrows to assault rifles: How the rules of PNG tribal wars have changed">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2024
RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s security detail has cut a media briefing short over protesters in Auckland. He was holding a press conference yesterday after a walkabout with police to discuss concerns with businesses in the CBD. Luxon was talking with media when one of his security officers could be seen coming ... <a title="PM Luxon’s security cut short visit ahead of Palestine protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/27/pm-luxons-security-cut-short-visit-ahead-of-palestine-protest/" aria-label="Read more about PM Luxon’s security cut short visit ahead of Palestine protest">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2024
RNZ Pacific New Zealand should join others in calling New Caledonia’s third independence referendum invalid, one of the founders of the Kanaky Aotearoa Solidarity Network says. It follows the 10th Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting (PALM10) in Tokyo last week, where New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters called for the Pacific Islands Forum to facilitate ... <a title="New Zealand urged to take bolder stand over New Caledonia’s third referendum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/new-zealand-urged-to-take-bolder-stand-over-new-caledonias-third-referendum/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand urged to take bolder stand over New Caledonia’s third referendum">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2024
Pacific Media Watch An interview with former University of the South Pacific (USP) development studies professor Dr Vijay Naidu, a founding president of the Fiji Anti-Nuclear Group (FANG), has produced fresh insights into the legacy of Pacific nuclear-free and anti-colonialism activism. The community storytelling group Talanoa TV, an affiliate of the Whānau Community Centre and ... <a title="Former FANG president Vijay Naidu talks Pacific anti-nuclear activism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/former-fang-president-vijay-naidu-talks-pacific-anti-nuclear-activism/" aria-label="Read more about Former FANG president Vijay Naidu talks Pacific anti-nuclear activism">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2024
By Sainimili Magimagi in Suva Family members keep silent on the issue of violence in Fiji and individuals continue to be the victims, according to Jonathan Veitch, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) representative to the South Pacific. While raising his concern on the issue at Nasinu Gospel Primary School on Friday, he said 83 percent ... <a title="Breaking the silence – 83% of Fijian children suffer violence, reports UNICEF" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/21/breaking-the-silence-83-of-fijian-children-suffer-violence-reports-unicef/" aria-label="Read more about Breaking the silence – 83% of Fijian children suffer violence, reports UNICEF">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A brutal killing of three Papuan civilians in Puncak Jaya reveals that occupied West Papua is a ticking time bomb under Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto, claims the leader of an advocacy group. And United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) Benny Wenda says the Melanesian region risks becoming “another East Timor”. The ... <a title="Latest Puncak Jaya massacre reveals West Papua ‘is a time bomb’, claims Benny Wenda" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/21/latest-puncak-jaya-massacre-reveals-west-papua-is-a-time-bomb-claims-benny-wenda/" aria-label="Read more about Latest Puncak Jaya massacre reveals West Papua ‘is a time bomb’, claims Benny Wenda">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
PANG Media The PANG media team at this month’s Pacific International Media Conference in Fiji caught up with independent journalist, author and educator Dr David Robie and questioned him on his views about decolonisation in the Pacific. Dr Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report and deputy chair of Asia Pacific Media Network (APMN), a co-organiser ... <a title="PANG talks to journalist David Robie on Pacific decolonisation issues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/pang-talks-to-journalist-david-robie-on-pacific-decolonisation-issues/" aria-label="Read more about PANG talks to journalist David Robie on Pacific decolonisation issues">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2024
By Margot Staunton, RNZ senior journalist and Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor A Kanak political commentator in Aotearoa New Zealand says calls to separate New Caledonia into pro- and anti-independence provinces would worsen racial inequality in the Pacific territory. Unrest continues in the capital Nouméa, with the nephew of New Caledonia Congress pro-independence president shot ... <a title="Kanaky New Caledonia crisis: Kanak lawyer warns ‘separatism’ will worsen inequalities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/17/kanaky-new-caledonia-crisis-kanak-lawyer-warns-separatism-will-worsen-inequalities/" aria-label="Read more about Kanaky New Caledonia crisis: Kanak lawyer warns ‘separatism’ will worsen inequalities">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Many platitudes about media freedom and democracy laced last week’s Pacific International Media Conference in the Fijian capital of Suva. There was a mood of euphoria at the impressive event, especially from politicians who talked about journalism being the “oxygen of democracy”. The dumping of the draconian and widely hated Fiji Media ... <a title="When media freedom as the ‘oxygen of democracy’ and hypocrisy share the same Pacific arena" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/15/when-media-freedom-as-the-oxygen-of-democracy-and-hypocrisy-share-the-same-pacific-arena/" aria-label="Read more about When media freedom as the ‘oxygen of democracy’ and hypocrisy share the same Pacific arena">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2024
By Kelvin Joe and Gynnie Kero in Port Moresby Two widows and their children were among other Papua New Guinean squatters who had to dismantle their homes as the eviction exercise started at portion 2157 at Nine-Mile’s Bush Wara this week. Agnes Kamak, 52, from Jiwaka’s South Waghi, and Jen Emeke, from Enga’s Wapenamanda, said ... <a title="‘We slept in the open,’ say PNG evicted widows who bought Bush Wara land" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/14/we-slept-in-the-open-say-png-evicted-widows-who-bought-bush-wara-land/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We slept in the open,’ say PNG evicted widows who bought Bush Wara land">Read more</a>
