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New Caledonia unrest pushes nickel sector deeper into crisis
New Caledonia unrest pushes nickel sector deeper into crisis
Economy
by  AFP

Weeks of unrest in New Caledonia have plunged the archipelago's nickel industry, already on government life support, closer to catastrophe, sector representatives say. And although France has lifted a state of emergency across the territory after two weeks of unrest in which seven people died and hundreds were injured, few expect a fast return to normality in the nickel industry.