“It is the decolonization of the most difficult minds” | EUROtoday

Calm of unhealthy omen reigns in Thio, 2,500 inhabitants, in New Caledonia. Under the overwhelming humid warmth of the cyclonic season, in early March, the streets of the bourg de la Côte Est stay too silent. Customers who intermittently enter Vaïana, the one nonetheless open grocery retailer, are not sufficient to animate the ambiance. The mine, which made Thio ‘glory, is over. The mud that soiled the lungs and garments of the village kids has dropped. Bench vehicles have stopped their noria. The extraction exercise was formally dormant by the corporate Le Nickel (SLN) in October 2024: 350 jobs eliminated, a thousand affected folks. And thousands and thousands of euros much less for the small city.

Thio has simply misplaced half of the inhabitants that animated him. The two medical doctors just lately bagged, which led to the closure of the dialysis heart. Also left, the physiotherapist and the liberal nurses. The destiny of the dispensary stays unanswered. Same uncertainty for colleges-that of Thio-Mission, Francis-Rougé, personal Catholic, which primarily welcomes Kanak kids, and that of the hill, public: the province will announce in April the closure of one of many two institutions.

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