New Caledonia
New Caledonia's FLNKS wants ICJ advice on contested vote
New Caledonia's pro-independence movement says the advice of the International Court of Justice is being sought over the contested 2021 referendum on independence from France.
No charges to be filed against Caledonian Union leader accused of sedition – Prosecutor
The president of New Caledonia's largest pro-independence party Daniel Goa will not be prosecuted for alleged calls for violence and sedition.
Caledonian Union dismisses 'two generations to self-determination' suggestion
New Caledonia's largest pro-independence party says the latest French pronouncement on self-determination is an insult to the decolonisation process.
France briefs UN on New Caledonia challenges
The French interior minister Gerald Darmanin has invited the United Nations decolonisation committee members to visit New Caledonia. Audio
Pacific Islands Forum won't 'intrude' in New Caledonia's decolonisation process
There is no support from the Pacific Islands Forum for New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS movement seeking to annul the outcome of the 2021 referendum on independence from France.
7,000 New Caledonians take to the streets demanding funding for Catholic schools
Thousands of people have marched in Noumea in support of New Caledonia's Catholic schools, which are struggling to keep operating.
'Decolonisation must continue' - New Caledonia independence campaigner
There has been a warning in New Caledonia against attempts to abandon the decolonisation process pursued over more than two decades.
Families ripped apart by Pacific blackbirding now reuniting
From the 1860s until 1901, trading ships took Pacific islanders to work on plantations - many kidnapped or tricked, now some of those families are being reunited.