Tagata o te Moana. 2014-07-26. 17:30-18:00.

A weekly wrap-up of news, issues and current affairs from the Pacific. The programme is broadcast nationwide every Saturday evening on Radio New Zealand National and is produced by the newsroom of Radio New Zealand International. The following rundown is supplied from the broadcaster’s news system:

1. France's highest court has upheld a major corruption sentence given to the French Polynesian president Gaston Flosse last year.

2. Suggestions that the leader of the Fiji regime will visit Auckland next month to campaign is getting a mixed reaction from groups representing people from Fiji in New Zealand.

3. Fiji's Sodelpa Party says its manifesto for the upcoming election addresses basic issues like poverty and jobs.

4. One of five opposition MPs suspended from Nauru's parliament says the group remains in limbo as they continue to wait to challenge their suspensions.

5. The Cook Islands Party election victory has been marred by accusations of bribery and miscounts from the rival Democratic Party.

6. The former Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare says he supports the appointment of an Australian as his country's new Police Commissioner.

7. Thirty women who are potential candidates for Tonga's election in November have met in Nuku'alofa for training on campaigning and leadership.

8. The Australian High Commission to Papua New Guinea says a series of documentary films it commissioned about women leaders in the country breaks new ground [i.e. Pawa Meri project].