Mayotte is a small, sea-horse shaped archipelago–a green and wild rock encircled by one of the world’s largest closed lagoons–located in the Gulf of Mozambique, halfway between Madagascar and ...

This week, some 1,800 French police and gendarmes began a massive police operation in the Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte, a French department, to demolish informal settlements and expel large ...

Thousands are feared dead after a devastating 100-year cyclone ripped across the French archipelago of Mayotte on Saturday, inflicting destruction that one resident likened to an atomic bomb. “The ...