Mayotte has sunk approximately five inches during that time and moved just over two inches to the east. This, the researchers say, could be a result of a large magma chamber beneath the island ...

The death toll from a cyclone which hit France's Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Saturday is likely to be several hundred, a local official has warned. Entire communities were flattened when ...

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 ...

MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte (AP) — They clustered around water taps, rare sources of electricity and each other. Four days after the strongest cyclone in nearly a century ripped through the French island ...

And the probability of Mayotte, a small island, being hit by such a cyclone is extremely low. That's why the territory hasn't experienced this type of event for 90 years.

The island of Petite-Terre is nicknamed "The Fortress." Not for the solidity of its construction, but because it is home to the Prefecture and the bulk of Mayotte's army, police, navy and gendarmerie.

MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte (AP) — They clustered around water taps, rare sources of electricity and each other. Four days after the strongest cyclone in nearly a century ripped through the French island ...

MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte (AP) — They clustered around water taps, rare sources of electricity and each other. Four days after the strongest cyclone in nearly a century ripped through the French island ...

MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte (AP) — They clustered around water taps, rare sources of electricity and each other. Four days after the strongest cyclone in nearly a century ripped through the French island ...