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President Emmanuel Macron arrived in France’s Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte on Thursday after cyclone Chido devastated it last weekend. From when his visit began, the banker-president was faced with angry crowds who booed him as he arrogantly lectured them that they should be proud to be French and called to crack down on Comoran immigrants. As Macron arrived, Réunion1, a public TV station on Réunion island, reported that rescue and health workers in Mayotte believe the cyclone may have killed 60,000 people—nearly a fifth of the registered population. France’s monarchist interior minister, Bruno Retailleau, dismissed the report as a “rumor,” as Réunion1 had pulled it from its web site. But contacted by Libération, Réunion1 journalist Raphaël Kahn defended the now-deleted report, insisting this is what Mayotte rescue workers had said. The cyclone’s 220km/h winds destroyed sheet-metal houses in which much of Mayotte’s population lives, wiping out hillside slums in the capital, Mamoudzou. The French government is hiding the extent of the disaster caused by its decades of neglect of Mayotte’s infrastructure, claiming that it has confirmed 35 dead and 2,500 wounded. The interior ministry admitted, however, that its own estimate “does not match the reality that 100,000 people live in precarious housing.” A further reason that death tolls are flagrant underestimates is that communication between the Small Island, on which Mayotte airport is located, and the rest of Mayotte, particularly the Large Island on which the bulk of the population lives, is very limited. Several barges that used to serve as ferries between Mayotte’s different islands were sunk in the storm. Food and water are only beginning to arrive via airlift to the Small Island. Mayotte’s notoriously poor water system has collapsed, and residents of Mamoudzou’s Kawni slum told Europe1 they are drinking dirty water or not drinking anything at all. Amina, who drank water out of a stream that formed after it rained, said: “We don’t have a choice, we drink this water even though it’s muddy. We do our best to filter it, but anyway if we don’t do that, we die.”

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Angry residents of cyclone-hit Mayotte jeer Macron

French President Emmanuel Macron has faced an angry reception from residents of the Indian Ocean overseas region of Mayotte, which was recently hit by Hurricane Chido.

“Resign! Resign!,” “Water, water, water!,” a crowd shouted gathered around the president as he arrived in Kavani, the neighbourhood of Mamoudzou commune hardest hit by the impact of the storm.

Locals told the President that it was good that he had come, but that they were missing literally everything. In the video broadcast by the BFMTV channel, it was difficult to hear Macron’s words because of the crowd’s disapproving roar and loud whistling.

“You have received first aid. I know it’s not enough,” he said, in an attempt to convince the crowd that sending help earlier was not possible.

The crowd that gathered around the politician demanded more aid be delivered to the victims, as much of the archipelago still lacks electricity, water and food.

Earlier, media reported that Hurricane Chido, which hit the French overseas department of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, caused damage worth hundreds of millions of dollars. French experts estimated the damage from the rampant disaster at 650-800 million dollars.

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Residents of Mayotte have spoken of "apocalyptic scenes" caused by the worst storm in 90 years to hit the French Indian Ocean territory.

Cyclone Chido brought wind speeds of more than 225km/h (140mph), flattening areas where the poorest lived in sheet-metal roof shacks.

"We've had no water for three days now," said one resident of the capital city Mamoudzou. "Some of my neighbours are hungry and thirsty," another one said.

Rescue workers, including reinforcements from France, are combing through the debris searching for survivors. Twenty people have been confirmed dead, but the local prefect said it could be thousands.

Authorities said they were having difficulty establishing the number of deaths due to the large number of undocumented migrants - over 100,000 - in a population of 320,000.

Widespread damage to infrastructure - with downed power lines and impassable roads - is severely hindering emergency operations.

Supplies have begun to arrive, but there are severe shortages of food, water and shelter in certain areas. Some 85% of the territory remains without power, and about 20% of phones appear to be working. Some areas are beginning to get tap water.

But for Amalia Mazon, a 27-year-old midwife from Brussels who has been working at the island's central hospital, access to drinking water and food continues to be a concern.

"The water here is completely yellow. It's unusable for us," Ms Mazon told the BBC.

"We feel completely abandoned, and we don't even know if help is coming. We have no news, we have no idea," the midwife added.

Acting French health minister Geneviève Darrieussecq said the healthcare system in the archipelago had been "degraded" by the cyclone.

France colonised Mayotte in 1841 - and by the turn of the 20th Century added the three main islands that constitute the Comoros archipelago to its overseas territories.

The Comoros voted to become independent in 1974 but Mayotte decided to remain part of France.

The island's population is heavily dependent on French financial aid and has struggled with poverty, unemployment and political instability.

About 75% of the population live below the national poverty line and unemployment hovers at around one in three.

"The images are apocalyptic. It's a disaster, there's nothing left," a nurse working at the main hospital in Mamoudzou told BFM TV.

Mamoudzou resident, John Balloz, said he was surprised he did not die when the cyclone struck.

"Everything is damaged, nearly everything, the water treatment plant, electric pylons, there's a lot to do."

Mohamed Ishmael, who also lives in the capital,told Reuters news agency: "You feel like you are in the aftermath of a nuclear war… I saw an entire neighbourhood disappear."

"It's the hunger that worries me most," Mayotte Senator Salama Ramia told French media. "There are people who have had nothing to eat or drink" since Saturday, she said.

Francois-Xavier Bieuville, the island's prefect, told local media the death toll could rise significantly once the damage was fully assessed. He warned it would "definitely be several hundred" and could reach the thousands.

Mayotte's impoverished communities, including undocumented migrants who have travelled to the French territory in an effort to claim asylum, are thought to have been particularly hard hit due to the vulnerable nature of their housing.

The Muslim tradition of burying the dead within 24 hours also meant documenting the number of those who have perished was more difficult, the prefect said.

In addition to aid, 110 French soldiers have arrived to help with the rescue, with another 160 on the way. Some 800 others from the ranks of volunteers helping during emergencies were also being sent to join local police units.

After arriving in Mayotte, French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said "days and days" would be needed to ascertain human losses.

The relief operation is being co-ordinated from Reunion - another French overseas territory.

French Red Cross spokesman Eric Sam Vah told the BBC the situation was "chaotic".

He said the organisation had been able to reach only 20 out of 200 Red Cross volunteers in Mayotte and echoed fears about the overall number of deaths.

"The totality of the slums have been totally destroyed, we haven't received any reports of displaced people, so the reality could be terrible in the coming days," the spokesman told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

Cyclone Chido also made landfall in Mozambique, where it brought flash flooding, uprooted trees and damaged buildings about 25 miles (40km) south of the northern city of Pemba. Three deaths have been reported.

The cyclone caused structural damage and power outages in the northern coastal provinces of Nampula and Cabo Delgado on Saturday morning, local authorities reported.

Guy Taylor, a spokesperson for aid agency Unicef in Mozambique, said "we were hit very hard in the early hours of this morning".

"Many houses were destroyed or seriously damaged, and healthcare facilities and schools are out of action," he added.

Mr Taylor said Unicef was concerned about "loss of access to critical services", including medical treatment, clean water and sanitation, and also "the spread of diseases like cholera and malaria".

Chido is the latest deadly storm to form of such high intensity.

It strengthened as a result of its long track over the ocean, says Sarah Keith-Lucas from the BBC Weather Centre. The cyclone would have weakened had it made landfall on Madagascar's rugged terrain.

But it is also the case that climate change has an impact - not necessarily in the frequency of storms but in the strength, Keith-Lucas says.

The storm has been now downgraded to a "depression" and is due to cross southern Malawi, then Mozambique's Tete province, before heading towards Zimbabwe overnight into Tuesday.

It may still bring 150-300mm of rain by the end of Tuesday.

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L’horrible Marine Le Pen dénonce le « racisme nauséabond » de la gauche qui dit que les Mahorais ne sont pas français.

Pour nourrir ses noirs fétiches, le RN veut instaurer l'esclavage des Blancs.

C’est l’extrême-gauche les vrais racistes.

Mayotte en France précédemment :

Rennes : un homme grièvement blessé après une rixe au couteau dans un Mc Donald’s 

Père de famille tué dans l’Aveyron : « Il n’y a aucune excuse à ce qu’a fait mon fils » 

Brest : pour le ramadan, organisation de combats de moukères de Mayotte 

À Rennes, un pédophile de Mayotte viole une lesbienne

Toulon : après avoir refusé de donner une cigarette, il se fait arracher le pied par un SDF mahorais

Montpellier : poignardée au cou pour un téléphone par un Mahorais déjà connu de la justice

Châlons-en-Champagne : un primate mahorais agresse sexuellement une femme enceinte

Rodez : une jeune Française brutalement violée en pleine rue par un Nègre musulman de Mayotte

Le patriotisme antiraciste saucisson-pinard est une maladie mentale.

Marine Le Pen arrive même à nier que les cafres de Mayotte appartiennent biologiquement au peuple comorien et ce, peu importe comment on le mesure : génétiquement, linguistiquement, géographiquement, religieusement.

Un drapeau tricolore, et voilà !

Nous sommes plus proches des babouins de Mayotte que des Allemands – source : souverainiste moyen

Je jubile à la vue de la réalisation de ma prophétie, ici annoncée depuis longtemps. L’émergence du nationalisme mahorais intégral est un processus irréversible, dernier clou dans le cercueil de Charles Maurras.

Notez-le bien et archivez-le : la droite antiraciste acceptera (au futur, pas au conditionnel) d’abandonner Beauvais ou Limoges avant Mamoudzou. D’ailleurs il n’y a rien à abandonner à Mamoudzou, ils sont déjà tous noirs et musulmans.

Mamoudzou, comme Londres en 1940, devient le coeur battant du souverainisme français, pas Paris – de toute façon déjà livrée à l’Afrique noire.

C’est marron et ça pue, véritable Haïti de substitution, c’est l’omphalos du Frexit. Ce lupanar aimante d’instinct tous les obsédés de l’Une-et-Indivisible dans leur défi lancé à l’existence des races depuis 1789.

La seule chose qui pourrait susciter un flottement quant à cette passion obsessionnelle, ce serait d’exiger de cette droite antiraciste qu’elle choisisse entre Israël et Mamoudzou. Ce serait un dilemme, surtout pour beaucoup d’homosexuels patriotes.

Très souvent ici, nous engageons des discussions pour lesquelles la très grande majorité des gens ne sont pas prêts. Mayotte, et par extension la litanie de ces glorieuses îles à sauvages « d’Outre-Mer », en fait partie et en bonne place, même si le miracle mahorais, de par sa dimension islamique, se hisse en haut du podium.

Macron est arrivé sur place et je peux déjà dire que la barrique Marine Le Pen va hurler de rage contre « l’insuffisance » des montants de cash qui leur seront donnés.

Ces noirs au français approximatif sont très en colère contre les Blancs qui refusent de donner à ces glorieux compatriotes tout le pognon qu’ils méritent.

Macron parle en babouin à cette occasion.

Il a une longueur d’avance sur l’alcoolo-tabagique.

Entendez-vous jamais Marine Le Pen parler de l’Auvergne, du Béarn, de la Savoie ou de la Bretagne ?

Cela n’existe pas dans sa géographie mentale.

Sans cocotiers, sans rhum et sans nègres rigolards, cela ne peut pas intéresser Dalida.

Après Dreyfus, c’est Mayotte qui a conquis l’âme de la droite française pour ne plus l’abandonner. Plus tôt vous le comprendrez, plus tôt vous vous émanciperez de cette entreprise humaine désastreuse.

Miousette ne sait pas.

Vous n’êtes pas tenu de devenir un aliéné au service de la négraille pour complaire aux gens atteints par la névrose souverainiste qui se font élire avec ses voix.

Le racisme vous délivrera de toutes vos chaînes, de toutes vos entraves dont les escrocs du souverainisme essaient de vous convaincre qu’elles sont aussi légères que des plumes.

Rien ne vous oblige à être l’esclave des nègres et sûrement pas la rente électorale du gang lepéniste.

« Nourris ma bête, Aryen maudit ! »

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April 14, 2023 - Day 108

Mamoudzou, Mayotte

Mamoudzou is the capitol of Mayotte which is a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean. Mamoudzou is the most populated community of Mayotte. It is located in the island of Grande-Terra which is the main island of Mayotte. Mayotte consists of two islands (Grand-Terre and Petite-Terre) plus several islets around these two. Geological they are the products of the separation of Madagascar from Africa. Mayotte is the most prosperous territory in the Mozambique Channel, making it a major destination for immigration from both southeastern Africa and Madagascar.

The islands are a protectorate of France so the population speaks French and uses the Euro as its currency. The islands have voted twice to remain a protectorate which I think is pretty smart because they get all the benefits of France without paying a lot. It is hot, humid and very hilly. There is a ferry that runs between the two islands that costs 0.75 euros round trip. There is a nice beach near the ferry terminal on Petite-Terre. The place is 95% Muslim and it was ramadan but nobody seemed to care as the beer was flowing. The place is certainly not a hot vacation destination but if you want to get away nobody is going to find you here.

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Cyclone-Damaged Mayotte

After hurtling into the islands of Mayotte on December 14, 2024, Cyclone Chido left behind scenes of devastation. Hurricane-force winds tore roofs off homes, downed utility poles, and uprooted trees in the French territory off the southeast coast of Africa. In many areas, the once-vibrant, green landscape had turned brown.

The change is visible in these satellite images of Mayotte’s main island (Grande Terre). The OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8 captured the bottom on December 30, two weeks after the Category 4-equivalent cyclone made landfall. The top image shows the same area during more typical conditions two months prior to the storm.

Jess Zimmerman, a professor of ecology at the University of Puerto Rico, has studied how hurricanes in the Atlantic basin change tree composition. But tropical cyclones damage vegetation on landforms in other basins too, including the southwest Indian Ocean, pictured here. After reviewing these images, Zimmerman noted that damage to vegetation was especially noticeable on the hillsides just west of the capital city of Mamoudzou.

High winds blow leaves off trees and snap branches, and heavy rain and wind make it easier for trees to be uprooted from wet soils. Trees at high elevations and on steep slopes are more likely to be damaged in storms because they are more exposed to high wind speeds.

Agence France-Presse reported that during Cyclone Chido, a 300-year-old giant baobab in Mayotte collapsed onto a restaurant, and a 3-meter (10-foot) mound of soil now looms where an acacia tree was uprooted by the storm. Banana trees and other crops were destroyed in the storm, according to a humanitarian assessment, putting the island communities’ food supply at risk.

Chido also damaged infrastructure on the islands, including the airport, hospitals, and roads, disrupting access to electricity, water, and communications. The European Commission’s satellite assessment of cyclone aftermath found much of the damaged and destroyed infrastructure on Grande Terre was in the northeast, where the cyclone made landfall.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Emily Cassidy.

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The complex challenge of rebuilding Mayotte after Cyclone Chido

A damaged road before entering Tsingoni, Mayotte commune, 20 December 2024. MORGAN FACHE/DIVERGAN / MORGAN FACHE They started with a count of about 20 architects, engineers and construction experts on Monday, December 16, and then began inspecting schools one by one in teams of four. They started with schools in Mamoudzou, the capital of Mayotte. After Hurricane Chido devastated the French Indian…

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WATCH: President Macron heckled by angry residents of cyclone-hit Mayotte

France´s President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with a local resident during his visit in Pamandzi, on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on December 19, 2024. — AFP  MAMOUDZOU: Angry residents of a Mayotte neighbourhood damaged by Cyclone Chido heckled French President Emmanuel Macron when he toured it on Friday, complaining that potable water had not reached them nearly a week after…

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Cyclone Chido: Emmanuel Macron heckled during visit to Mayotte | masr356.com

People shouted “Macron resign”, “you’re talking nonsense” and “water, water, water” as he inspected damaged areas. During his visit to the Mamoudzou hospital centre, the AFP news agency reported that one woman told Macron: “Nobody feels safe here… people are fighting over water.” “Your services are overwhelmed,” one man at the hospital told Macron, according to Reuters. “Help has not reached…

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Days after Cyclone Chido hit the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, residents are still struggling to access water and food, as rescuers race to find those missing. The cyclone devastated entire neighbourhoods and killed at least 31 people, according to France’s interior ministry. Among the damaged and destroyed homes in Mayotte’s capital, Mamoudzou, people lined up with jugs to get water or waited to charge their phones. On Thursday morning, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Mayotte to assess the devastation wrought by the cyclone. His visit to the French overseas territory comes after Paris declared “exceptional natural disaster” measures for Mayotte late on Wednesday night to enable swifter and “more effective management of the crisis”. Officials have warned that the death toll from the most destructive cyclone in living memory could reach hundreds, possibly thousands, as rescuers race to clear debris and comb through flattened shantytowns to search for survivors. “The tragedy of Mayotte is probably the worst natural disaster in the past several centuries of French history,” Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said. Located near Madagascar off the coast of southeastern Africa, Mayotte is France’s poorest region. An estimated one-third of Mayotte’s population lives in shantytowns whose flimsy, sheet metal-roofed homes offered scant protection from the storm. Cyclone Chido – which hit Mayotte on Saturday – was the latest in a string of storms worldwide fuelled by climate change, according to meteorologists. Experts say seasonal storms are being supercharged by warmer Indian Ocean waters, fuelling faster, more destructive winds. At Mamoudzou’s Mayotte Central Hospital, windows were blown out and doors ripped from hinges, but most of the medics had taken to sleeping at their battered workplace on Wednesday as Chido had swept their homes away. “It’s chaos,” said medical and administrative assistant Anrifia Ali Hamadi. “The roof is collapsing. We’re not very safe. Even I don’t feel safe here.” https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2024-12-19T065140Z_912421055_RC22SBAJBJ6K_RTRMADP_3_STORM-CHIDO-1734593105.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440 2024-12-19 08:08:58

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‘It’s chaos’: Aftermath of Cyclone Chido in Mayotte | Climate News

Days after Cyclone Chido hit the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, residents are still struggling to access water and food, as rescuers race to find those missing. The cyclone devastated entire neighbourhoods and killed at least 31 people, according to France’s interior ministry. Among the damaged and destroyed homes in Mayotte’s capital, Mamoudzou, people lined up with jugs to get water…

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Destruction d'habitats et d'espèces protégées : un individu condamné à 3 ans de prison à Mayotte

Le parquet de Mamoudzou, à Mayotte, a condamné, le 7 novembre 2024, un individu à trois ans de prison ainsi qu'à une amende pour destruction d'habitats naturels et d'espèces végétales protégées sur la commune de Dzoumogné. Cet individu avai

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Choléra : à Mayotte, trois premiers cas « autochtones » confirmés

Il s’agit des premiers cas à découler d’une contamination interne au département de l’océan Indien. Ils ont été « identifiés dans la commune de Koungou », au nord de Mamoudzou, a précisé l’agence régionale de santé, vendredi. — À lire sur www.lemonde.fr/sante/article/2024/04/26/cholera-a-mayotte-trois-premiers-cas-autochtones-confirmes_6230088_1651302.html

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Cyclone Chido Pummels Mayotte

A deadly cyclone ripped through the islands of Mayotte on December 14, 2024. Cyclone Chido’s hurricane-force winds downed electric poles, uprooted trees, and tore roofs off homes in the French territory, according to news reports.

Chido formed in the southeastern Indian Ocean on December 5, 2024. The disturbance rapidly intensified before hitting the Mauritian islands of Agaléga on December 11. The next day, the cyclone peaked in intensity, with sustained winds of about 250 kilometers (155 miles) per hour—equivalent to a strong Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale.

According to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Cyclone Chido continued to move west in an environment favorable for sustaining storms. That included warm sea surface temperatures of up to 29 degrees Celsius (84 degrees Fahrenheit) and low vertical wind shear.

After Chido’s center passed just north of Madagascar on December 13, the storm made landfall on northern Mayotte the morning of December 14 with sustained winds of 225 kilometers (140 miles) per hour. The image above, acquired by the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) on the NOAA-20 satellite, shows the cyclone at 10:15 a.m. Universal Time, about three hours after making landfall.

Chido was the strongest storm to hit Mayotte in more than 90 years, according to Météo-France. The European Union’s preliminary satellite assessment of the aftermath found widespread damage to structures in eastern and northern parts of Mayotte, including the populated capital of Mamoudzou on the main island (Grande Terre) and the airport on the eastern island of Pamandzi (Petite Terre).

After devastating Mayotte, the cyclone continued west and hit Mozambique on December 15. During all three landfalls, the storm carried winds equivalent to those of a Category 4 tropical cyclone.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Michala Garrison, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). Story by Emily Cassidy.