Mayotte, in the Comoros archipelago. Between Madagascar and African coast. A French department, 320,000 inhabitants. officially. But how many excluded, undocumented? Their presence is even less a secret, from the Cyclone Chido in January. The uprooted trees reveal the extent of the slums. The collapse of infrastructure reveals the systemic dysfunctions of the island.
And growing tensions on immigration are rekindled while the government in Paris continues to prioritize the fight against illegal immigrants.
“In devastated Mayotte: the fracture in the face of the undocumented migrants”, a major report by Justine Rodier.