Mayotte’s contested sovereignty has given rise to a complex nexus of challenges: mass irregular migration, mounting social ...

Legislators in France's upper house are preparing to inject nearly €4 billion into Mayotte as part of a sweeping plan to ...

Cyclone Chido, which struck on Dec. 14 and killed at least 39 people, is inflaming already dangerous tensions over immigration on Mayotte, an archipelago off Africa’s eastern coast.

MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte — When Cyclone Chido ravaged Mayotte’s fragile infrastructure, it also exposed deep-seated tensions between the island’s residents and its large migrant population.

France observed a one-minute silence on Monday to begin a day of national mourning announced by President Emmanuel Macron for the victims of Cyclone Chido. The worst storm to hit the island in ...

Close to 1,000 people may have been killed after Cyclone Chido hit Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, according to the island's top official. Mayotte Prefect Francois-Xavier Bieuville told local TV ...

One week after the devastation caused by Cyclone Chido, Mayotte, a French territory in the Indian Ocean, is still reeling. The worst cyclone the archipelago has seen in nearly a century has left ...

The school in the town of Vahibé has been occupied by residents of the nearby shantytown ever since cyclone Chido hit. In Mayotte, France, on December 20, 2024. MORGAN FACHE/DIVERGENCE FOR LE ...

A woman looks at a destroyed home in Mamoudzou, Mayotte, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant) 28,921 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?

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.

His mother had named her seventh child Chido, after the previous night's storm, the most powerful cyclone to hit Mayotte in nearly a century. Sign up here. "I was two minutes late," Gerard said ...