Thousands of people have marched in Noumea, protesting in support of New Caledonia’s Catholic schools, which are struggling to keep operating. An estimated 7000 people went to the seat of government and to the Congress building last Friday after the school management warned that budget allocations for this year were US$12 million short of what Read more
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Kanak independence activist Susanna Ounei has died
Friday, July 1st, 2016
Susanna Ounei has died in New Zealand at the age of 70. Susanna was born in 1945 in Ouvea in the Loyalty Islands, but grew up in Poindimie on the east coast of New Caledonia. She was a member of the Foulards Rouges in the late 1960s, which mobilised young Kanaks and their supporters to Read more