Damaged house with a collapsed roof in Mayotte, Indian Ocean, due to Cyclone Chido on Dec. 15, 2024, image provided by French Army. AP. In the last few decades, thousands of people have attempted ...

Mayotte is France's poorest overseas territory. It is an archipelago north-west of Madagascar, where most of its 350,000 inhabitants live in tin shacks and other unstable structures that could not ...

Mayotte is made up of two main islands: Grande-Terre and Petite-Terre. The nearby Comoros cover three small volcanic islands, Grande Comore, Anjouan and Moheli.

MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte (AP) — They clustered around water taps, rare sources of electricity and each other. Four days after the strongest cyclone in nearly a century ripped through the French island ...

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.

The death toll from a cyclone which hit France's Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Saturday is likely to be several hundred, a local official has warned. Entire communities were flattened when ...

As a new Science report reveals, Mayotte residents felt tiny earthquakes in rapid succession that continued ceaselessly for days on end. The rumbles, which began in mid-2018, refused to stop, and ...

Aerial footage shows the devastation in the French territory of Mayotte on Dec. 15, after Tropical Cyclone Chido directly hit the island nation. (Video: Commandement Gendarmerie Outre-Mer via Reuters) ...

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 used ships and military aircraft to rush rescue workers and supplies to its Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Monday after the island group was battered by its worst cyclone in a century.

Maps Show How Cyclone Chido Has Devastated French Island Mayotte. Published Dec 16, 2024 at 7:11 AM EST Updated Dec 16, 2024 at 12:06 PM EST. By .

People on the island of Mayotte are calling for aid after Cyclone Chido, with wind speeds of 140mph (225kmh), devastated the French Indian Ocean territory "There's nothing here on the ground - no ...