Damaged house with a collapsed roof in Mayotte, Indian Ocean, due to Cyclone Chido on Dec. 15, 2024, image provided by French Army. AP. In the last few decades, thousands of people have attempted ...

France used ships and military aircraft to rush rescue workers and supplies to its Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Monday after the island group was battered by its worst cyclone in a century.

Reports of widespread damage are emerging from Mayotte after a 100-year cyclone ripped across ... France is “standing by their side with a helping hand,” Retailleau said of the Mayotte people.

Mayotte was directly in the cyclone's path, though, and took the brunt. Chido brought winds in excess of 220 kph (136 mph), according to the French weather service, making it a category 4 cyclone ...

The death toll in the French territory of Mayotte from Cyclone Chido is “several hundred” and may run into the thousands, the island’s top government official told a local broadcaster Sunday.

Mayotte, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa, had only just begun rebuilding after the devastation of Cyclone Chido last month, which killed at least 39 people, left ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in the French territory of Mayotte from Cyclone Chido is “several hundred” and may run into the thousands, the island’s top government ...

People in storm-ravaged Mayotte implored French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday to do more to help as he toured the overseas territory, where scores are feared dead in the rubble left by ...

Officials on the archipelago off the eastern coast of Africa said the number of people killed by Tropical Cyclone Chido could be much higher than the 21 now confirmed dead.

The death toll in the French territory of Mayotte from Cyclone Chido is “several hundred” and may run into the thousands, the island’s top government official told a local broadcaster Sunday.

The death toll in the French territory of Mayotte from Cyclone Chido is “several hundred” and may run into the thousands, the island’s top government official told a local broadcaster Sunday.