The island has been gripped by protests and unrest for the last few weeks A group of residents from the Indian Ocean French island of Mayotte has been rounding up suspected illegal migrants and ...
A French possession since 1841, the tiny island of Mayotte is now a département or county of the Republic which means, in theory, that the same rules apply there as in the Moselle or Maine-et ...
In Mayotte, a group of French territorial islands between Mozambique and Madagascar, residents face a severe shortage of clean water. According to many of the islands’ nearly 300,000 people ...
Mayotte's 10 previous cases arrived on the island from elsewhere, mostly from the neighbouring Comoros which has been battling a cholera epidemic since the start of the year.
Around half the people in the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte were without potable water Tuesday after a "technical incident" at a treatment plant, a local authority said in a statement.
However, French sovereignty over some of these territories is contested. Mayotte is claimed by Comoros, while three of the Scattered Islands (Glorieuses, Juan de Nova, and Bassas da India ...