There were violent protests against French rule in the semiautonomous Pacific territory last year. The agreement would create ...

Agreement allows the archipelago that endured unrest last year to be its own state but remain within French fold.

In recent years, French colonial policy in general has come to have a strongly liberal cast. General de Gaulle's address of December 12, 1943, promising French citizenship to Moslems, and General ...

France has announced a sweeping agreement granting more autonomy to the South Pacific territory of New Caledonia.

The French Parliament approved on Monday the return of the Ayôkwé Djidji 'talking drum' that was lying dormant in the ...

HYERES, France (CN) — On Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron and heads of state will gather in Provence to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the "other D-Day" Allied invasion of France, which ...

On Thursday, the culture ministers of France and Madagascar announced a joint effort to begin the process of repatriating human remains seized while the African nation was under French colonial ...

France’s ‘colonial strategy’ blamed for division in troubled New Caledonia. Three months after the French Pacific territory was rocked by a wave of unrest, an uneasy calm has returned.

This may bring to mind the notorious overseas penal colonies of the French Empire (1852–1952), such as Devil’s Island in French Guiana or New Caledonia in the south Pacific, where criminals ...

In that article we dedicated to the tragic end of the Dutch Prime Minister and his brother in 1672, we explained that the Treaty of Dover, signed between Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France, ...