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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 ...
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]
France accuses Azerbaijan of being behind the protests and violence in New Caledonia after Azerbaijani and Togolese flags are seen alongside indigenous Kanak symbols at the protests. Azerbaijan has previously spoken out against French colonialism and supported pro- independence participants, in response to French support for Armenia .
Riots erupted after French lawmakers approved changes to the French Constitution that would allow residents who have lived in New Caledonia for 10 years to vote in provincial elections. Opponents fear the measure will benefit pro-France politicians in New Caledonia, where pro-independence indigenous Kanaks have long pushed to be free of France.
Pro-independence Kanak leaders, who a week earlier declined Macron's offer of talks by video, turned out Thursday to greet him in perso In riot-hit New Caledonia, French President Macron says the ...
SYDNEY/PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to the Pacific island of New Caledonia on Tuesday, a government spokesperson said, just over a week after riots erupted in the ...
New Caledonia became a French overseas territory in 1946. Starting in the 1970s, in the wake of a nickel boom that drew outsiders, tensions rose on the island, with various conflicts between Paris ...
French authorities say more than 280 people have been arrested since violence flared May 13, as French lawmakers in Paris debated the contested changes to New Caledonia voter lists. The unrest continued to simmer as Macron jetted in, despite a 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew and more than 1,000 reinforcements for the archipelago's police and gendarmes ...