New Caledonia

Four anti-independence parties in New Caledonia have joined forces as the territory prepares for a new statute after last year's rejection of independence from France.

New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS movement and five other small nationalist parties have agreed that they will only discuss the territory's accession to full sovereignty in talks planned with…

New Caledonian telecommunications company OPT-NC has almost finished connecting key underwater internet cables. These will give New Caledonia and its eastern islands faster internet.

Several pro-independence parties in New Caledonia are urging supporters to boycott the second round of the French presidential elections this Sunday.