Mayotte: ‘Close to a thousand’ feared dead on French island of Mayotte after cyclone

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Some of Mayotte’s population of 320,000 say they are struggling with severe shortages of food, water and shelter.

One resident of the capital city, Mamoudzou, waiting for supplies, says: “We’ve had no water for three days now, so it’s starting to be a lot.

“We’re trying to get the bare minimum to live on, because we don’t know when the water will come back.”

Mohamed Ishmael, another Mamoudzou resident, tells Reuters news agency the situation there was “a tragedy”.

“You feel like you are in the aftermath of a nuclear war… I saw an entire neighbourhood disappear,” he says.