France's interior minister says security forces have regained control of the capital but violence continues in other parts of the country.
France 's interior minister says New Caledonia 's capital Noumea is back under control after two weeks of deadly riots.French security forces have regained control of New Caledonia 's capital Noumea , France 's interior minister says, two weeks after deadly riots broke out in the Pacific territory leaving seven people dead, hundreds injured and several hundred arrested.
Other districts of greater Noumea remain blockaded, said Sonia Backes, a pro-France politician who heads New Caledonia's southern province.An AFP journalist saw another blockade being dismantled in La Tamoa, on the main road to Noumea's international airport of La Tontouta.The operation to clear the road to New Caledonia's international airport was one of the biggest ordered by French authorities.
In Dumbea, north of Noumea, thick black smoke was rising from a local gym Friday, while elsewhere separatist blockades were still slowing traffic.Military ships delivered food and medicine to New Caledonia's north province on Thursday and Friday as road transport has been severely disrupted, imposing shortages.
New Caledonia has been ruled from Paris since the nineteenth century but many Indigenous Kanaks want fuller autonomy or independence.
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