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

France has been criticised for the "alarming" death toll in New Caledonia during recent protests and its "cold shower" ...

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 ...

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 ...