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Macron suspends New Caledonia voting reform after deadly unrest

Car wreckages at a makeshift roadblock at the entrance of Ducos industrial zone, in Noumea, France's Pacific territory of New Caledonia, May 29, 2024. © Theo Rouby, AFP

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Wednesday the suspension of controversial voting reforms in New Caledonia following a spate of deadly unrest in the French Pacific territory. 

The reforms, which would have altered voting rights, are feared by the Indigenous Kanak people who say they would have marginalize them further. The issue has caused the worst violence on the archipelago in decades.

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