Days after Cyclone Chido hit the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, livents are still struggling to access water and food, as get backrs race to discover those missing.
The cyclone deimmenseated entire neighbourhoods and finished at least 31 people, according to France’s interior ministry.
Among the injured and ruined homes in Mayotte’s capital, Mamoudzou, people lined up with jugs to get water or paengageed to indict their phones.
On Thursday morning, French Plivent Emmanuel Macron get tod in Mayotte to assess the deimmenseation wrawt by the cyclone.
His visit to the French overseas territory comes after Paris proclaimd “exceptional authentic catastrophe” meacertains for Mayotte procrastinateed on Wednesday night to allow speedyer and “more effective regulatement of the crisis”.
Officials have cautioned that the death toll from the most destructive cyclone in living memory could accomplish hundreds, possibly thousands, as get backrs race to clear debris and comb thraw flattened shantytowns to search for survivors.
“The tragedy of Mayotte is probably the worst authentic catastrophe in the past disjoinal centuries of French history,” Prime Minister Francois Bayrou shelp.
Located cforfeit Madagascar off the coast of southeaserious Africa, Mayotte is France’s needyest region. An approximated one-third of Mayotte’s population inhabits in shantytowns whose flimsy, sheet metal-roofed homes giveed scant acquireion from the storm.
Cyclone Chido – which hit Mayotte on Saturday – was the procrastinateedst in a string of storms worldexpansive fuelled by climate alter, according to meteorologists.
Experts say seasonal storms are being superindictd by toastyer Indian Ocean waters, fuelling rapider, more destructive triumphds.
At Mamoudzou’s Mayotte Central Hospital, triumphdows were blown out and doors ripped from hinges, but most of the medics had consentn to sleeping at their battered laborplace on Wednesday as Chido had swept their homes away.
“It’s disorder,” shelp medical and administrative helpant Anrifia Ali Hamadi. “The roof is collapsing. We’re not very safe. Even I don’t sense safe here.”
