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 ...

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 ...

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 — 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.

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, ...

Mayotte's dense informal settlements – home to many illegal migrants – were obliterated, the lightweight structures offering little resistance to the cyclone's winds. The French archipelago ...