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In today's stories, we cover the plight of New Caledonia, which has been grappling with its worst violence in the last three decades as Kanak separatists clash with the French government.

The Indigenous people are now turning to the UN to mediate in what they view as Paris' failure to uphold their right to self-determination.

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Michelle Langrand

31.07.2024


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Members of the Kanak community hold flags of the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front at the funeral ceremony of Lionel Paita who died after being injured during clashes, in Paita, New Caledonia, 17 June 2024. (Keystone/Thomas Bernardi/AFP)

‘No UN or NGOs to witness what is happening’ in New Caledonia. As clashes continue in New Caledonia and the political crisis deepens, the Pacific French island has slipped off the international radar, prompting frustration from Nouméa to Paris to Geneva. The loyalist camp, led by the president of the southern Province, Sonia Backès, recently declared that despite over 170 years of cohabitation, “just as oil and water don’t mix”, the Kanak and the west still have irreconcilable differences. Earlier in July, two Kanak representatives were in Geneva to request international mediation and for the territory to be placed under UN trusteeship.

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