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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 ...
The 2020 protests in New Caledonia began on 28 October 2020 over a plan to sell a Vale-owned nickel and cobalt mine to a consortium led by Trafigura. The nickel mine and plant is known as the Goro mine .
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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 ...
May 19 – France sends police to New Caledonia to regain control of the road to La Tontouta International Airport, which is currently controlled by protesters. [ 9 ] May 22 – New Caledonian telecom services thwart a massive email cyberattack on an internet provider prior to French President Emmanuel Macron 's visit to the territory.
France annexed New Caledonia in 1853 and gave the colony the status of overseas territory in 1946. New Caledonia is the world's No. 3 nickel miner but one in five residents live under the poverty ...
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Since 1986, the United Nations Committee on Decolonization has included New Caledonia on the United Nations list of non-self-governing territories. [7] The 1987 New Caledonia independence referendum, the first independence referendum, was held the following year on 13 September 1987. However, independence was rejected by a large majority, with ...