Cyclone Chido not only ravaged Mayotte’s infrastructure but also laid bare tensions between the island’s residents and its ...

Chido was the most intense tropical cyclone on record to make landfall in the French territory of Mayotte, an archipelago in ...

Newly appointed prime minister Francois Bayou promises to rebuild the cyclone-devastated French Indian ocean territory in two ...

France used ships and military aircraft to rush rescuers and supplies to Mayotte on Monday after the tiny French island ...

EDITORIAL. Prime Minister François Bayrou has pledged to rebuild the archipelago within two years, but not as it was before.

He told TV station Mayotte la 1ere: “I think there are some several hundred dead, maybe we’ll get close to a thousand. Even thousands ... given the violence of this event.″ Bayrou suggested ...

Cyclone Chido barrelled down on Saturday, damaging Mayotte's airport and cutting off electricity, water, and communication ...

told Mayotte la 1ere. Bieuville on Sunday asserted that the death toll was several hundred people and could even be in the thousands. But he added it would be extremely hard to count the deaths ...

The death toll in the French territory of Mayotte from Cyclone Chido is "several hundred" and may run into the thousands, the island's top government official told a local broadcaster Sunday.

"I think there will definitely be several hundred, perhaps we will come close to a thousand or even several thousand" deaths, prefect Francois-Xavier Bieuville told broadcaster Mayotte la Premiere.