Phone and internet service remained spotty. Among the damaged and destroyed homes in Mayotte's capital, Mamoudzou, people lined up with jugs to get water Wednesday or waited to charge their phones.

"We can't let Mayotte become the capital of shantytowns," he told reporters. "It can't be about rebuilding Mayotte as it was. We must draw a different future for Mayotte," he said earlier.

“Chaos” is how resident Fahar Abdoulhamidi described the aftermath. In Mamoudzou, Mayotte’s capital, destruction was total: Schools, hospitals, restaurants, and government offices were in ruin ...

Mayotte issued a red alert and people were ordered to stay ... with much of the focus on the precarious shantytowns around ...

He then headed to the hospital in Mamoudzou, Mayotte’s capital, to meet with medical staff and patients. He will then visit a destroyed neighborhood. French authorities said at least 31 people ...

The French department of Mayotte is to be placed on high cyclone alert on Saturday evening, according to the Minister of Overseas Territories. Authorities fear the effects of cyclone Dikeledi whose ...

The French territory of Mayotte was battered by a new tropical storm Sunday, just weeks after the worst cyclone to hit the ...

A fresh tropical storm has struck Mayotte in the Indian Ocean just weeks after a deadly cyclone which killed at least 39 ...

with much of the focus on the precarious shantytowns around the capital, Mamoudzou, and other areas, which were largely destroyed by Chido. National TV station Mayotte la 1ère said that the ...