The rioting exploded after lawmakers in Paris approved legislation to give more voting rights to New Caledonia’s nonindigenous population, diluting the influence of the native Kanak people.

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 ...

New Caledonia remains a tinder box. Local divisions run deep between primarily European loyalist and mainly indigenous independence parties after a contested independence… A report of the Lowy ...

France’s Overseas Minister Manuel Valls, visiting archipelago, reportedly presents draft document on several subjects to all ...

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 ...

The three killed were young indigenous Kanak people, a spokesperson for New Caledonia's President Louis Mapou said based on police information. Darmanin on Wednesday said “hundreds” of people ...