MPs warn of impending social chaos in French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte
Issued on: Makeshift town in Kahani, in Mayotte, April 2020 Faid SOUHAILI / AFP Text by: Angela Diffley with RFI 4 min 54 French parliamentarians are calling for immediate action to address severe poverty and illegal immigration on Mayotte, ten years after it officially became the 101st department of France. Advertising Read more
Mayotte is a group of islands that geographically forms part of the Comoro archipelago, which was colonized by France in 1912 and then declared French autonomous overseas territory in 1946.
But while Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli voted for independence from France in 1974, the islands of Mayotte rejected independence and then did so again in a second referendum two years later.
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