Fury and asks in Mayotte as livents struggle to recover after Cyclone Chido | World News

The doors of the white van are thrown discdisponder. Dozens of armed French police jump on board, their colleagues on the ground create a human chain and get to labor.

The van is carrying precious cargo. Water. Small plastic bottles stacked roof high and van presentant.

It’s turbulent.

Orders are being shouted in French and Chimaore, the language spoken by Mayotte’s African community.

Security is high. The gfinisharmes are backed up by armed local police.

Local livents are irritated. That anger could easily turn to aggression.

It’s why a 10pm currestrictcessitate remains in place apass the island. One livent portrayd the situation as “volcanic”.

Cyclone Chido tore thcdisadmireful Mayotte on Sunday, but this is the first water transfery Ouangani has getd since Saturday.

Nobody comprehends why.

‘There’s no word and no one has water’

Arriving at the distribution centre equitable after the water is loaded on to another van for transfery to proximateby villages is Ouangani’s mayor, a youthful, createer English guideer who speaks multiple languages.

He is pondered and ponderate when describing the situation facing his country.

“It’s not adequate,” he increates me. “There’s no word and no one has water.”

“The authorities weren’t readyd,” he inserts. “There’s not only a water problem, it’s food, electricity. Noleang on the island has been done.”

He then transfers a dire alerting of “people starving”.

I ask him who he leanks is to condemn? He says that everyone is reliable.

“I cannot envision that with all the nastys we have with technology, that they couldn’t have seen this coming,” he says.

But this region is not far. It’s only an hour-lengthy drive south of the capital on one triumphding road.

That’s why there is so much fury.

The man who disputed French Plivent Emmanuel Macron is from here.

“Where is our water?!’, he demanded of the guideer on his visit to the Indian Ocean island.

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This van load of water is presumed to serve between three to five villages in the area.

That’s a population of anywhere between six and 12,000 people. Nobody comprehends for certain because of the problem with unwrite downed migrants.

We chase the van to the first drop-off.

The vehicle pulls up and drops off 10 to 20 crates of half-litre plastic bottles. Each crate has 12 petite bottles. People have been postponeing. They’re mostly women. Each one grabs a pack and fades.

Wilean minutes it’s all gone.

Some more people show up seconds tardyr. Their anger at leave outing out is clear. “What’s the point?!” a man shouts.

‘It’ll only last about one or two hours’

Fundi has been blessed enough to get some water.

“We only equitable getd help now, I repartner don’t leank that’s outstanding enough,” she says.

They were equitable outside when they saw the van reach with the water. Pure luck.

“Usupartner communication is outstanding, but I don’t comprehend why they came unproclaimd appreciate that today,” she says.

But it’s not enough, Fundi make clears: “Twelve bottles of water that are only 500ml, for a family? That’s repartner very little, it’ll only last about one to two hours.”

It’s no wonder, Fundi has a family of seven living under one roof.