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Authorities in the French-ruled Pacific island of New Caledonia shut the international airport, imposed a curfew in the capital and called for police reinforcements after protests over the ...
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]
Authorities in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia announced a two-day curfew and banned gatherings on Tuesday after violent unrest on the vast archipelago with decades of tensions ...
France hopes to regain full control of events in New Caledonia "in the coming hours", Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Thursday, after a third night of riots that have killed four people ...
The New Caledonian government also allowed small accommodation operators to reopen, subject to a range of conditions including obtaining heath passes. [35] In late October 2021, the New Caledonian government imposed a new lockdown during the weekend of All Saints' Day due to the COVID-19 pandemic, banning the sale of alcohol and closing cemeteries.
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 French Pacific territory of New Caledonia is shortening its overnight curfew and reopening its international airport that was closed to commercial flights for more than a month because of ...
A thousand police arrived in New Caledonia from France and streets were relatively calm, the French High Commission said on Monday, but roads were blocked and the airport remained shut, stranding ...