(19 Dec 2024)
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Mayotte, France – 19 December 2024
1. Various of displaced family in school
2. Close of woman’s injured foot
3. Displaced family
4. SOUNDBITE (Shimaore) Alibouna Haithouna, displaced mother of four:
"There was a tragedy. We lost my brother. We are here. This is my mother. She was in the hospital, she wanted to stay but the hospital kicked her out. (She wanted to stay) because she has nowhere to go and her son died. She left the hospital and everyone is here."
5. Exterior of school housing displaced families
6. SOUNDBITE (Shimaore) Alibouna Haithouna displaced mother: "My brother’s body, we haven’t been able to get it from the hospital because there is a lot of paperwork to do and in addition to that you have to pay to recover the body."
7. Various of displaced children playing
8. Policeman and cars on the road
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Abdou Houmadou, displaced:
"I want to know from the state, is it like this in all French regions or is it just in Mayotte that they’ve abandoned the island?"
10. Interior of school housing displaced families
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Abdou Houmadou, displaced: "Mayotte doesn’t necessarily need your presence (to Macron) but what Mayotte needs is your help, your support. What you’ve spent in coming here, from Paris to Mayotte would be better if you had used it to help the population"
12. Various of woman washing in a bucket outside school
STORYLINE:
About 500 displaced people were sheltering in a school in Mayotte Thursday, after a cyclone destroyed many homes on the French island territory.
Alibouna Haithouna, a 25-year-old mother of four, said her family had been displaced from a shantytown and found shelter in a school.
Her brother was killed by the cyclone, she said, explaining she hasn’t been able to get his body from the hospital because of “a lot of paperwork” and the fact that payment was needed to recover the body.
People sheltering in the school say they don’t have easy access to water or food.
Frrench President Emmanuel Macron traveled Thursday to f Mayotte to survey the devastation that Cyclone Chido wrought across the French territory as thousands of people tried to cope without the bare essentials such as water or electricity.
Macron’s visit angered some who said the money spent on traveling should have been used elsewhere.
"Mayotte doesn’t necessarily need your presence," said Abdou Houmadou, a resident of one of the shantytowns near Mayotte. "What you’ve spent in coming here, from Paris to Mayotte would be better if you had used it to help the population".
Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean off Africa’s east coast, is France’s poorest territory and a magnet for migrants hoping to reach Europe.
The cyclone on Saturday was the deadliest storm to strike the territory in nearly a century.
It devastated entire neighborhoods on the collection of islands with winds that exceeded 220 kph (136 mph), according to the French weather service.
Many people had ignored cyclone warnings, thinking the storm would not be so extreme.
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