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Al Jazeera (1 August 2024)

Catherine Wilson

Three months after the French Pacific territory was rocked by a wave of unrest, an uneasy calm has returned.

The debris has been cleared from the streets of New Caledonia’s capital Noumea, but the shells of torched buildings are a continued reminder of the unrest that rocked the French territory in the Pacific nearly three months ago.

The May protests were sparked by Paris’s backing for electoral reforms in the territory that pro-independence supporters say would have diluted the Indigenous Kanak community’s influence at the ballot box.

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