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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 race 11%, with other ethnic minorities (including Wallisians, Tahitians ...
The state of emergency would end on Monday evening at 8:00 p.m. in Paris (Tuesday 5:00 a.m. in Noumea). Police shot dead a man on Friday evening, a day after French President Emmanuel Macron ...
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.
[2] Three Kanak residents are killed and many more injured during a drive-by shooting by a group of french settlers [3] At least 54 officers are injured and more than 130 people are arrested. Shops and cars are looted, while a prison breakout has been prevented. [4] May 15 – A fourth person is killed in New Caledonia. [5]
France declared a state of emergency in New Caledonia that came into force at 5 a.m. (1800 GMT Wednesday), and went on to put at least 10 people under house arrest and ban TikTok.
The nickel sector employs about 1 in 5 people in New Caledonia. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] According to the Asia Times , "The territory’s 290,000 population is closely divided between the Kanaks , who are Melanesian , and settlers who began arriving in the mid-19th century when France set up a penal colony ."
SYDNEY/PARIS (Reuters) -Protesters in New Caledonia erected new barricades overnight in "cat-and-mouse" games with French police reinforcements ahead of the arrival of President Emmanuel Macron ...
Exercise Croix du Sud is a military exercise held every two years in New Caledonia, its surrounding waters and airspace.Many countries in the Pacific region take part in these exercises, which usually focus on delivering humanitarian aid, evacuating civilians, and reestablishing security in the wake of a simulated disaster.