France mobilized emergency aid on Monday, deploying ships and military aircraft to assist Mayotte, its overseas territory in the Indian Ocean, after the island was devastated by its most severe ...
Mamoudzou, Mayotte — France's President Emmanuel Macron traveled Thursday to the Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte to survey the devastation that Cyclone Chido wrought across the French ...
But despite all the efforts to move forward, a grim question hangs over this deeply impoverished archipelago: Exactly how many people died in Cyclone Chido? The day after the disaster, France’s ...
searching for water and shelter after Saturday’s Cyclone Chido leveled entire neighborhoods when it hit Mayotte, the poorest territory in France and — by extension — the European Union.
Across Mayotte, France's poorest department 500 kilometres (310 miles) east of Mozambique, "many of us have lost everything," said prefect Francois-Xavier Bieuville. Chido had proved to be "the ...