New Caledonia

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.

A top New Caledonian politician Philippe Gomes has been in court charged with exerting undue influence, with the prosecution seeking a six-month suspended prison sentence.

The question of New Caledonia regaining full sovereignty must be sorted by 2025, the territory's largest pro-independence party has said.

The ethnic Wallisian party in New Caledonia's Congress, which holds the balance of power, has pulled out of its partnership with the pro-independence Caledonian Union.