In the bush of New Caledonia, a deer and shrimp festival defies divisions

Hundreds of people attended New Caledonia's shrimp and deer festival in Bouloupari where an assortment of stalls offer deer meat, plants, and knives, among other things.

The fair is famous throughout the archipelgao and brings together Caldoches, descendants of European settlers, and the Kanak community, the Indigenous Melanesian people. Last year there was months of deadly unrest in the French Pacific territory between pro-independence Kanaks and communities loyal to Paris.