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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 blood 11%, with other ethnic minorities (including Wallisians, Tahitians ...
In 2018, a year after becoming France's president, Emmanuel Macron flew to the remote French-ruled Pacific island of New Caledonia to outline his latest foreign policy plan. With China's regional ...
The New Caledonia Trough is an ocean floor feature that extends 2,300 km (1,400 mi) from the north of the island of Grande Terre of New Caledonia, to the coast off the Taranaki region of the North Island of New Zealand. Its southern portion includes the Taranaki Basin which has demonstrated oil reserves.
Riots erupt in New Caledonia as France plans to change the constitution, allowing more recent French migrants to vote in the island's provincial elections, which protesters claim would marginalize the Indigenous Kanak people. [2] Three Kanak residents are killed and many more injured during a drive-by shooting. [3]
SYDNEY/PARIS (Reuters) -Australians stranded in New Caledonia are rationing food as they wait for a way out of the Pacific island territory, amid unrest that has killed six people, a traveller ...
No announcement was made on a night curfew imposed by local authorities in New Caledonia. The operator of Noumea international airport has announced it will remain closed until June 2.
As the storm approached, New Caledonia was placed on high alert, as Niran was expected to cause severe damage in the country, especially on the main island of Grande Terre. [16] [8] Authorities placed the entire island nation under a Level Two Tropical Cyclone Alert late on 5 March as the storm bore down on the country. [17]
Violence raged across New Caledonia for the third consecutive day Thursday, hours after France imposed a state of emergency in the French Pacific territory, boosting security forces’ powers to ...