'Shake Off the Shackles': France Struggles to Keep Its Colonies
The unrest is a response to Paris-backed changes to local voting laws. The island nation is between Australia and Fiji, and has been a French territory since the 19th Century.
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The unrest is a response to Paris-backed changes to local voting laws. The island nation is between Australia and Fiji, and has been a French territory since the 19th Century.
The current unrest in New Caledonia goes back to the 1850s when France took possession of the archipelago. But what interests does France have there? Who are the Kanaks? And what does Azerbaijan have to do with it all?
Europe News: NEW DELHI: There have been days of unrest in the French-administered Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia.
State of emergency has been declared in the Pacific Ocean archipelago after four people were killed in the worsening violence.