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December 3 – New Caledonia's overnight curfew is lifted. [16] December 24 – The territorial government collapses after environment and sustainable development minister Jérémie Katidjo-Monnier of Caledonia Together resigns from the cabinet of President Louis Mapou. [17]
Darmanin said numbers of police and gendarmes in New Caledonia would rise from 1,700 to 2,700 by Friday evening, with a small number of soldiers assisting. A representative of CCAT said they did ...
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.
New Caledonia's government called for calm and condemned the destruction of property, saying 50 local businesses and ar New Caledonia calls in more police amid riots over voting reform Skip to ...
On 12 October 2021, the New Caledonian government appealed for help from the French Army in combating the spread of COVID-19. The government said that the French military could set up ten intensive care units at the main Nouméa hospital and treat between 30 and 60 people over several weeks.
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 ...
SYDNEY/PARIS (Reuters) -French police reinforcements began arriving in New Caledonia on Friday in a massive push to regain control of the capital, the top French official in the Pacific island ...
Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in New Caledonia. 23 January – Radio New Zealand reported that New Caledonia was reporting an average of 300 new daily cases after the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant reached the territory earlier in January. [1] 7 February – Cyclone Dovi causes one death in New Caledonia. [2]