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Tropical storm Dikeledi barrelled towards Mozambique on Monday after leaving three dead in Madagascar and triggering floods ...
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 ...
Dikeledi had weakened to a tropical storm by the time it reached Mayotte on Sunday, French meteorological service Meteo-France said. The center of the storm would pass about 100 kilometers (62 ...
The island of Mayotte is located at the entrance of the Mozambique Channel, 1,700 km from Réunion and 350 km from Madagascar. This proximity facilitates illegal immigration from the Comoros, ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte (AP) — Relatives of families struggling after Cyclone Chido ripped through the French island territory of Mayotte expressed helplessness Wednesday, a day before France's ...
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 ...
Mayotte lies in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa, just west of Madagascar. Made up of two main islands, its land area is about twice the size of Washington, D.C.
Mayotte is a French territory off the east coast of Africa with approximately 320,000 people. France's top official on Mayotte, François-Xavier Bieuville, ...