Mayotte’s Plage Musicale (Mark Stratton) At Bandrele, it was a similar theme of another pleasant B&B run by a French woman, Lise, from Bordeaux, who had fallen in love with the island and ...

Migrants are estimated to make up nearly half of Mayotte’s population of about 320,000, according to the latest French statistics from 2017. Of that group, 95 percent were Comoran, it said.