France used ships and military aircraft to rush rescue workers and supplies to its Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Monday after the island group was battered by its worst cyclone in a century.

Seven months after cyclone Chido struck Mayotte, France’s poorest department, parliament has passed a sweeping plan to help ...

Mayotte was directly in the cyclone's path, though, and took the brunt. Chido brought winds in excess of 220 kph (136 mph), according to the French weather service, making it a category 4 cyclone ...

Cyclone Chido hit Mayotte overnight, Meteo-France said, with winds of more than 124 mph, damaging housing, government buildings and a hospital. It was the strongest storm in more than 90 years to ...

The latest surge began in early 2025, with severe outbreaks in the same Indian Ocean islands that had previously been ...

Reports of widespread damage are emerging from Mayotte after a 100-year cyclone ripped across the French archipelago Saturday, inflicting devastation that one resident likened to an atomic bomb, with ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron speaks with medical staff at the intensive care unit of the Mayotte Hospital Centre in Mamoudzou, on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, Dec. 19, 2024 ...

MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte — French President Emmanuel Macron arrived Thursday in the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte to survey Cyclone Chido’s destruction and was immediately confronted with a first ...

A hospital in Mayotte reported that nine people were in critical condition in the hospital and 246 others were injured. 4. At least 11 have died after Cyclone Chido ripped through Mayotte.