NOUMEA: French security forces have regained control throughout New Caledonia's capital Noumea, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Friday (May 31), two weeks after deadly rio
NOUMEA: French security forces have regained control throughout New Caledonia 's capital Noumea, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Friday ,and arrested 12 people in the Riviere-Salee district in the city's north, Darmanin wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.The violence erupted over a planned voting reform that indigenous Kanaks fear will marginalise them politically.
An AFP journalist saw another blockade being dismantled in La Tamoa, on the main road to Noumea's international airport of La Tontouta. Days of clashes, looting and arson have left seven people dead, two of them police officers and hundreds injured. Military ships delivered food and drugs to New Caledonia's north province on Thursday and Friday as road transport has been severely disrupted, imposing shortages.
New Caledonia has been ruled from Paris since the nineteenth century but many Indigenous Kanaks want fuller autonomy or independence.
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