New Caledonia

Voting is under way in New Caledonia in the last of three referendums on independence from France. Audio

The Melanesian Spearhead Group Secretariat has called on member states to not recognise New Caledonia's independence referendum this weekend.

The French overseas minister Sebastien Lecornu is returning to New Caledonia and is likely to arrive after the territory's third and final referendum on independence from France, on Sunday.

A pro-independence delegation from New Caledonia has left for New York to raise its opposition to the December 12 independence referendum with the United Nations.

A group of citizens in New Caledonia has asked France's highest administrative court to postpone next Sunday's third and final independence referendum.

There is growing unease over the French decision to hold New Caledonia's third and final independence referendum on December 12th.

New Caledonia has eased and extended its Covid-19 restrictions for another three weeks after they were originally due to be lifted over the weekend.