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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 race 11%, with other ethnic minorities (including Wallisians, Tahitians ...
SYDNEY/PARIS (Reuters) -Protesters in New Caledonia erected new barricades overnight in "cat-and-mouse" games with French police reinforcements ahead of the arrival of President Emmanuel Macron ...
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The nickel sector employs about 1 in 5 people in New Caledonia. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] According to the Asia Times , "The territory’s 290,000 population is closely divided between the Kanaks , who are Melanesian , and settlers who began arriving in the mid-19th century when France set up a penal colony ."
Environment of New Caledonia (2 C, 2 P) G. Geography of New Caledonia (7 C, 13 P) ... Template:Interactive Map of New Caledonian Communes; K. Kanak war club;
In 2009 he was elected to the New Caledonian Territorial Assembly as a member of The Rally but left the party in 2013 with its leader Gaël Yanno to form the Caledonian People's Movement. He assumed leadership of the party in 2018. [3] [4] In June 2024, during the unrest, he was involved in the beating of a young off-duty Kanak policeman. [5]
Les Loyalistes (The Loyalists) is a coalition of anti-independence centrist and right-wing political parties in New Caledonia. The Loyalist coalition is led by Sonia Backès . [ 1 ] The parties involved are the Caledonian Republicans , the Caledonian People's Movement (MPC), and Générations NC .
The Nouméa Accord (French: Accord de Nouméa) of 1998 is a promise by the French Republic to grant increased political power to New Caledonia and its indigenous population, the Kanaks, over a twenty-year transition period. It was signed 5 May 1998 by Lionel Jospin, and approved in a referendum in New Caledonia on 8 November, with 72% voting in ...