Damaged house with a collapsed roof in Mayotte, Indian Ocean, due to Cyclone Chido on Dec. 15, 2024, image provided by French Army. AP. In the last few decades, thousands of people have attempted ...

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 ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has faced jeers from locals on the cyclone-battered French overseas territory of Mayotte, telling them they should be “happy to be in France, because if it wasn ...

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 ...

Mayotte cyclone before and after images show ‘nuclear war-like’ destruction. Aerial footage shows entire neighbourhoods reduced to rubble. Stuti Mishra. Tuesday 17 December 2024 10:00 GMT.

A soldier looks at damages in the French territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, after Cyclone Chido caused extensive damage with reports of several fatalities on Sunday Dec. 15, 2024.

Mayotte's land area is 374 square kilometres (144 sq mi) - slightly more than twice the size of Washington DC. It has a population of some 321,000 people according to official estimates.

Hundreds feared dead in Mayotte as Tropical Cyclone Chido devastates island. Chido was the most intense tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in the French territory of Mayotte, an ...

But Mayotte, France’s poorest territory, was already struggling before the storm hit on Saturday. The health care system was “on its last legs,” according to a 2022 French Senate report ...