Women wait in line at a water distribution point in Mamoudzou, Mayotte, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. Credit: AP/Adrienne Surprenant By The Associated Press Updated December 22, 2024 ...

Women wait in line at a water distribution point in Mamoudzou, Mayotte, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant) Women wait in line at a … more > ...

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 ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron speaks with medical staff at the intensive care unit of the Mayotte Hospital Centre in Mamoudzou, on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, Dec. 19, 2024 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A visit to the Indian Ocean islands of Mayotte, which were struck by Cyclone Chido last weekend, reveals the devastating toll of the storm on an impoverished territory that belongs to France.

Traditional songs and dances welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron when he arrived this week on the Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte — unlike his last visit, when he was greeted by furious… ...

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.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The French territory of Mayotte was battered by a new tropical storm Sunday, just weeks after the worst cyclone to hit the islands in nearly a century laid waste to ...

When Cyclone Chido ravaged Mayotte’s fragile infrastructure, it also exposed deep-seated tensions between the island’s residents and its large migrant population. Thousands of people who had ...