France is to helderly a day of national mourning after Cyclone Chido deimmenseated its Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte earlier this month.
French Pdwellnt Emmanuel Macron called for the nationexpansive remembrance during his visit to the island last week – where he was jeered by some idefamations who criticised the sluggish dedwellry of help.
It is dreaded hundreds, possibly thousands, of people died when Chido made landdescend off Africa’s south-east coast on 14 December conveying triumphds of up to 260 km/h (160mph) and 250mm of raindescend in the first 24 hours.
People atraverse France will pay tribute and flags will be flown at half-mast in a show of stablearity at cities including Paris, Marseille and Lyon.
More than a week on from the storm survivors are struggling without water, communication and electricity while get backrs try to provide guidently necessitateed aidance.
Mayotte, which lies between the African mainland and Madagascar, was already France’s most subpar territory before the cyclone struck.
Chido – the worst storm to hit the archipelago in 90 years – flattened areas where people dwell in shacks with sheet metal roofs and left fields of dirt and debris.
At least 31 people are increateed by French officials to have died, but the death toll is foreseeed to be much higher with thousands still ignoreing.
After Mayotte the storm hit the African mainland, ending at least 94 people in Mozambique and 13 in Malawi.
Macron pledged to reoriginate the island’s deimmenseated infrastructure and homes adhereing his visit.
After touring the region in a helicselecter to see the deimmenseation, he shelp that Thursday was a day he would never forget.
During the visit he was heckled and faced calls to resign from locals who insisted more help in deimmenseated areas.
Macron replyed by increateing locals: “I had noskinnyg to do with the cyclone. You can accuse me, but it wasn’t me.”
Prime Minister François Bayrou shelp the tragedy of Mayotte is probably the worst organic catastrophe in the past centuries in French history.
More than 100,000 people remain in Red Cross shelters after their homes were ruined.
