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(FILES) France's President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech at the Place des Cocotiers in Noumea on July 26, 2023. A government spokeswoman announced May 21, 2024, that France's President Macron will visit riot-hit New Caledonia as looting, arson and deadly gunfire have enveloped the French Pacific territory eight days ago. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)
French President Emmanuel Macron will leave Paris for riot-hit Pacific territory New Caledonia "this evening", the government spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Macron "will leave as soon as this evening", Prisca Thevenot said, after more than a week of unrest over his government's voting reform plans rejected by indigenous Kanaks.
