A bill before France's National Assembly for the reconstruction of the overseas department of Mayotte should include access to education and other ...

Mayotte’s Operation Wuambushu (‘take back’) was launched last month to clear irregular immigrants from Mayotte’s slums and ship them about 70 km to the nearest Comorian island of Anjouan (supposedly ...

The slums of Mayotte, where many undocumented immigrants live, were hit the hardest, with entire neighborhoods flattened by the storm, per CBS. Most houses in the slums were stripped of their roofs.

Mayotte's population stands officially at 320,000, but there are an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 more clandestine inhabitants living in shanty towns that were utterly destroyed by the cyclone.

It’s about designing a different future for Mayotte.” Two weeks after Cyclone Chido, emergency services are still trying to restore water, power and telecoms services. – Slums – ...

One effect of the vegetation’s sudden disappearance is that Mayotte’s slums, formerly hidden by lush greenery, are now starkly apparent, making visible their number, and their sprawl.

Mayotte has changed beyond recognition since a cyclone devastated the Indian Ocean territory, sparking an environment and biodiversity crisis that could last for a decade or more, scientists say.