Tensions are high in New Caledonia as the remote Pacific island nation’s Indigenous people are pushing for 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 ...
“There have been numerous allegations regarding an excessive use of force and that would have led to numerous deaths among ...
PARIS: France's Environment Minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher will stay away from the COP29 global climate change conference in ...
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 ...
NICE, France (AP) — After four months of deadly unrest in New Caledonia, tensions in the French Pacific territory between the pro-independence Indigenous Kanak people and the white settler ...
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 ...