Mayotte dealing with the insoluble hazard of slums | EUROtoday

Lhe alert message from the prefecture arrives on the telephones at 5:49 p.m. This Friday, December 13, Mayotte is confined. A robust cyclone, Chido, threatens the island. Its winds threaten 1000’s of “bangas”, these makeshift huts constructed with 4 boards and a tin roof. Tens of 1000’s of individuals could be housed there. The State is getting underway. The prefecture opens 71 lodging facilities. But within the slums, the place there’s very robust mistrust of the authorities, there’s a worry that it might be a entice to expel unlawful immigrants.