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France has decided to lift the ban it had imposed on TikTok on its overseas territory of New Caledonia, said a regional authority for the area on Wednesday, as it aims to restore calm to the riot ...
2024 New Caledonia unrest. In May 2024, protests and riots broke out in New Caledonia, a sui generis collectivity of overseas France in the Pacific Ocean. [21] The violent protests have led to seven deaths, the declaration of a state of emergency on 16 May, deployment of the French army [12] and the block of the social network TikTok.
May 19, 2024 at 2:23 AM. [Getty Images] The Pacific territory of New Caledonia is "under siege", the mayor of its capital has said, following days of rioting that has left six people dead. Nouméa ...
French authorities in New Caledonia and at the interior ministry in Paris said that five people, including two police officers, have been killed since Monday. At least 60 members of the security forces were injured, and 214 people were arrested over clashes with police, arson and looting on Thursday.
New Caledonia became French in 1853 under Emperor Napoleon III, Napoleon’s nephew and heir. It became an overseas territory after World War II, with French citizenship granted to all Kanaks in 1957.
In 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron accused TikTok of censoring content and promoting online addiction among young people. [62] In March 2023, France banned all "recreational applications", including TikTok and other apps such as Twitter, Instagram, and Netflix, or games such as Candy Crush on government employees' phones due to concerns ...
New Caledonia (/ ˌ k æ l ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / ⓘ KAL-ih-DOH-nee-ə; French: Nouvelle-Calédonie [nuvɛl kaledɔni] ⓘ) is a sui generis collectivity of overseas France in the southwest Pacific Ocean, south of Vanuatu, about 1,210 km (750 mi) east of Australia, and 17,000 km (11,000 mi) from Metropolitan France.
Set in the warm waters of the southwest Pacific, some 1,500 km (930 miles) east of Australia, New Caledonia is home to 270,000 people, including 41% Melanesian Kanaks and 24% of European origin ...