The National Council of Chiefs of the Indigenous Kanak people rejected allegations that ... met with Macron during his whirlwind trip to New Caledonia last month to calm the unrest.

New Caledonia is home to 269,000 people, 39% are indigenous Melanesians, known locally as Kanaks, while 27% are Caldoches, descendants of French settlers A local assembly based in the capital ...

One Kiwi currently stuck there said it is a 'scary situation' that has locals worried ...

Well, it stems from hotly-disputed changes to voting rules in New Caledonia that Indigenous leaders say will dilute their vote. The archipelago of about 300,000 people is located between Australia ...

But the result in the Pacific territory New Caledonia was… New Caledonia: France’s way or the Pacific way? France’s action in transporting eight indigenous New Caledonian detainees to metropolitan ...

After months of violence, New Caledonia independence groups will ... lawmakers debated voting reforms opposed by the indigenous Kanak people, who have long sought independence.

New Caledonia marked the anniversary on Tuesday of France's takeover of the Pacific archipelago with tight security and simmering tensions between the pro-independence Indigenous Kanak people and ...

New Caledonia's newly-installed government has elected pro-France Alcide Ponga as its President. Ponga, 49, is also the first indigenous Kanak president of the pro-France Le Rassemblement-Les ...

The protests were sparked by anger among Indigenous Kanak people, who make up 40 per cent of New Caledonia's population, over a constitutional reform approved in Paris. Local leaders fear the ...