After four months of deadly unrest in New Caledonia, tensions in the French Pacific territory between the pro-independence ...

24 is a reminder to continue their struggle for independence. The National Council of Chiefs of the Kanak people was meeting on Mare Island, across from Noumea, and was expected to unilaterally ...

The Kanak people have long sought to break free from France, which first took the Pacific archipelago in 1853 and granted citizenship to all Kanaks in 1957. The latest violence flared on May 13 in ...

another site of recent protests that focused on independence and representation for the indigenous Kanak people. Direct ...

The territory's Indigenous Kanak people fear changes to the voting registry would favor recent arrivals to the Pacific archipelago. Recommended Videos Tensions in New Caledonia have long been ...

Reverend Billy Wetewea told RNZ Pacific on the sidelines of Te Hui Oranga o te Moana nui a Kiwa, a conference in Auckland ...

A three-day fact-finding mission, headed by three Pacific leaders, has wrapped up in Nouméa, and New Caledonia's President ...

The pro-independence Indigenous Kanak people and white settler communities have been at odds over the territory’s future. The Kanaks revolted in May against President Emmanuel Macron’s voting ...

PARIS (AP) — Two people have been killed in New Caledonia during a police operation to apprehend activists suspected of involvement in deadly unrest over attempts by Paris to amend the French ...