New Caledonia

The French overseas minister will organise a round table with New Caledonia's political leaders on the sale of the Vale nickel plant.

A group of New Caledonia's political leaders will meet with the French overseas minister via video link this morning to discuss the country's sovereignty.

The leader of the pro-independence Caledonian Union has rejected last week's claim that Paris was kept out of the loop about the bidding for the Vale nickel plant.

New Caledonia's SLN nickel company has a new CEO as a restructure of its operations is hoped to stave off insolvency.

French air accident investigators have identified human error as the cause of last January's plane crash in New Caledonia, in which four people died.

New Caledonia has registered two more Covid-19 cases in its quarantine facilities, bringing its tally to 32.

The French Overseas Minister says France will not tolerate what he calls a mess in New Caledonia where there have been rallies and blockades over the planned sale of the Vale nickel plant.

New Caledonia's anti-independence coalition has denounced the rival camp's decision to pull out of talks with France about the territory's institutional future.

The president of New Caledonia's Southern province has hit out at the pro-independence parties' campaign to try to thwart the sale of Vale's nickel plant.

New Caledonia's main pro-independence party says it won't hold talks with France about the territory's institutional future until Paris takes concrete steps towards New Caledonia's decolonisation.

Rallies are taking place across New Caledonia to oppose the planned sale of the Vale nickel plant to a new consortium, Prony Resources.

A committee of elders in New Caledonia has hit out at social media posts about them which they say are untruthful and defamatory.