Tensions are high in New Caledonia as the remote Pacific island nation’s Indigenous people are pushing for independence.

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.

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 ...

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

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

The Pacific Forum mission went ahead with permission from the far-right Macron government, amid talks over the French ...

New Caledonia’s economy is in ruins with hundreds of businesses ... Santos Pais questioned France’s commitment to the UN ...

Three Pacific Islands leaders visited New Caledonia to understand the causes of recent deadly riots. The riots, fueled by a ...

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 ...

France still has thousands of police deployed in New Caledonia to maintain peace after violence broke out in May over Paris' plan for voting reforms that Indigenous Kanak people fear would leave ...

New Caledonia’s contentious constitutional reform, which triggered violent unrest after a vote in the French National Assembly in May, will not now go ahead according to French Prime Minister ...

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.