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With a assured gesture, Fidiharimanana Rasolo knocks a number of instances on the lagoon inexperienced wood door embedded in blue sheets. “Hodina!” »he says. The conventional well mannered components in Shimaoré to ask “if there is anyone”. Inside the banga of this shanty city known as “Jamaica”, one of many largest in Koungou, within the north of Mayotte, its resident, suspicious, hesitated, Thursday, November 27, to reply. Above all due to his undocumented state of affairs. Dressed in a purple boubou, the mom, initially from the Comorian island of Anjouan, leaves her entrance door ajar. Then passes the enumerator a plastic faculty chair in order that he can start to fill out the 2 important paperwork: the housing type and the person types.

In this neighborhood fully razed by Cyclone Chido on December 14, 2024, and whose huts have been rebuilt “in seven days” with recovered sheet metallic, the Mayotte census has began, like all over the place on the island. The operation will final till January 10, 2026, underneath the administration of the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee) and with greater than 700 native brokers recruited by the municipalities. The first traits might be identified in July 2026, the ultimate determine in December 2026.

During the census, at the Tsoundzou I camp, in Mamoudzou, November 28, 2025.

With 5 youngsters aged 2 to twenty, the household lives in a small three-room condominium – ​​one “makeshift house”moderately say the census takers – with out water or electrical energy, which leads onto a steep laterite path, rutted, soiled, populated with rubble and automotive wrecks.

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