The UN migration agency says the boat sank on Friday between a Comoros island and the French island of Mayotte. Boats sit on Plage de Moya south of the city of Mutsamudu, the capital of Anjouan in ...
The death toll rose on Monday to 25 after two motorboats carrying migrants from Somalia capsized in the Indian Ocean near Madagascar, authorities said on Monday. The migrants had been at sea for ...
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 ...