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'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.

Mayotte was colonised by the French in 1843, and the entire archipelago, including Comoros, was annexed in 1904. A referendum in 1974 saw 63 per cent of Mayotte’s population vote to stay ...

In the ruins left by Cyclone Chido, people from Mayotte, off the eastern coast of Africa, are calling to deport the undocumented immigrants who had settled there from neighboring islands. By John ...