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President Emmanuel Macron visits a neighborhood deprived of electricity and water in Tsingoni, Mayotte, on December 20, 2024.

Mayotte, day 2. This Friday, December 20, after a tropical night time spent within the prefecture residence the place, like all over the place else on the archipelago, water is missing and electrical energy works sloppily, Emmanuel Macron needs to enterprise into the center-west of Grande Terre. Arriving the day earlier than, the president wished, he advised the journalists accompanying him, ” share “ a bit of of the struggling of the Mahorais.

This morning, aboard a gendarmerie helicopter, he flew over the small city of Vahibé, the place rival gangs frequently conflict, noticed the hills blown by the passage of Cyclone Chino on December 14, earlier than the plane arises on the outskirts of Tsingoni, a small landlocked city with out water and electrical energy for six days. ” How are you ? »says the head of state as he approaches a small crowd. “It’s not okay!” »confronts him with a half-joking woman. “I know it’s hard, the bottles are coming! »sympathizes the president. The city is in turmoil. During the night, packs of water were dropped by helicopter onto the football field below. For whom? No one saw the color of it. “No one knew, it’s the first to arrive who helps themselves”plague Abdou Badirou, a resident.

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