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Kaweni: France's biggest shantytown in the Indian Ocean

Of course, it is the state which set up this operation to allow us to breathe because we are suffocated by insecurity, by aggression, thefts and all kinds of acts. Some people are even killed or burned. If Wuambushu were to complete its mission, the population would be truly grateful to the State.

With its maze of huts housing 15,000 souls on a green hillside in the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, Kaweni has grown into Frances largest shantytown. A carpet of corrugated iron roofs and jumbled electric cables cascades down the hill above the main road in the Mamoudzuo district on the east of t ..

With its maze of huts housing 15,000 souls on a green hillside in the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, Kaweni has grown into France's largest shantytown.

The archipelago Comoros is refusing to accept people deported from Mayotte, saying it cannot cope with the influx.