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Seven more mobile force units will soon arrive as reinforcements in New Caledonia, the Elysée said in a statement on Monday, also indicating a state of emergency would end as planned in the ...
French President Emmanuel Macron is making a surprise trip to riot-hit New Caledonia, the French Pacific territory that has been gripped by days of deadly unrest and where indigenous people have ...
New Caledonia became French in 1853 under Emperor Napoleon III, Napoleon’s nephew and heir. It became an overseas territory after World War II, with French citizenship granted to all Kanaks in 1957.
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New Caledonia independence group demands Indigenous leader's release from custody in mainland France By BARBARA SURK Associated Press NICE, France (AP) — Members of a pro-independence movement in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia demanded on Monday the "release and immediate return” of the Indigenous Kanak leader who was flown ...
New Caledonia became French in 1853 under Emperor Napoleon III, Napoleon’s nephew and heir. It became an overseas territory after World War II, with French citizenship granted to all Kanaks in 1957.
Location of New Caledonia in Oceania. New Caledonia is a French overseas territory in the southwest Pacific. [28] It has a population of about 270,000; with the indigenous Kanak people constituting, according to the 2019 census, 41% of the population, the Europeans (Caldoche and metropolitan French) 28%, those of mixed blood 11%, with other ethnic minorities (including Wallisians, Tahitians ...
Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes (The Caledonian News) is a daily, French-language newspaper published in New Caledonia since June 15, 1971. New Caledonia's only daily publication, the newspaper does not publish a Sunday edition. Les Nouvelles Calédoniennes was owned by Groupe Hersant Média until 2013, when the Caledonian private investors took ...