Nouméa’s poorest neighbourhoods still struggling to rebuild, a year after riots

Nouméa’s poorest neighbourhoods still struggling to rebuild, a year after riots

One year ago, on 13 May, 2024, violent riots broke out in New Caledonia. Sparked by a controversial electoral reform, the unrest lasted several months, resulting in 14 deaths and causing at least two billion euros in damages.

RECIT - More than 2600 policemen and gendarmes, elite units and armoured vehicles in reinforcement... On the eve of the symbolic date of 13 May, which marks the beginning of the insurrection last year, the authorities deployed a XXL device to prevent any overflow.

The failure of political negotiations on the future of the territory due to the offensive of the Loyalist right causes uncertainty in the archipelago as it approaches the anniversary of the insurrection of 13 May 2024.

A year after the revolts, the discussions on the institutional future of the archipelago came to a standstill, for lack of agreement. The minister of overseas shunned the loyalists by trying to...

One year after the outbreak of the violent insurgency, which killed fourteen people in New Caledonia, the update on the economic, social and institutional situation of the archipelago in this newspaper.

One year after the outbreak of insurrectional violence, the situation in New Caledonia remains very tense, according to anthropologist Benoît Trépied, author of "Decolonizing Kanaky-New Caledonia" (Ed. Anacharsis, 2025).