ADRIENNE SURPRENANT

A girl walks amidst destruction in Mbouyougou, Mayotte, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant)
France’s Mayotte struggles to recover as cyclone overwhelms hospitals
A week after Cyclone Chido ravaged Mayotte, France’s poorest territory, the island remains in crisis. Hospitals are overwhelmed and doctors warning of mounting risks of epidemics like cholera due to the lack of clean water and electricity.
 
Women wash clothes after a short rain filled their pots with water, at the Lycée des Lumières where they found shelter after losing their homes, in Mamoudzou, Mayotte, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024 . (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant)
Crowds in Mayotte vent frustration with cyclone response as Macron tours devastation
Crowds in Mayotte have vented their frustration at French President Emmanuel Macron, with some booing.
 
A young girl walks in the Kaweni slum on the outskirts of Mamoudzou, in the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, after Cyclone Chido. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant)
France’s Macron says tour of cyclone-devastated Mayotte is a day he won’t forget
French President Emmanuel Macron has traveled to the Indian Ocean archipelago of Mayotte to survey the devastation wreaked by Cyclone Chido. An airport security agent told him as soon as he stepped of the plane that “Mayotte is demolished.”
 
A woman carrying her belongings walks past debris after Cyclone Chido in the Kaweni slum Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, on the outskirts of Mamoudzou, in the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant)
Survivors recount ‘very apocalyptic’ cyclone that ripped through French territory of Mayotte
Four days after the strongest cyclone in nearly a century ripped through the French island territory of Mayotte off the coast of Africa, survivors recalled the horror of a storm that caught many by surprise.
 
French civil security personnel board a flight to Mayotte from Saint Denis on Reunion Island, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant)
Authorities impose overnight curfew in cyclone-ravaged Mayotte as France rushes in aid
An overnight curfew goes into force Tuesday evening as Mayotte struggles to recover from Cyclone Chido, the strongest storm to hit the French Indian Ocean archipelago in 90 years.