France marked a national day of mourning Monday for the victims of Cyclone Chido, which devastated the French overseas ...

France is rushing rescue workers and supplies to its Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte after the island group off Africa was ...

Mayotte is a densely populated archipelago of more than 320,000 people, according to the French government, most of whom are ...

Chido caused significant damage when it made landfall in Mozambique before weakening over the weekend. Local Perfect Francois-Xavier Bieuville said with the Muslim tradition of burying the dead ...

In a meeting with President of the Republic Filipe Nyusi in Maputo this morning, the Muslim Community in Mozambique asked the government and Frelimo to engage in more dialogue with the people in order ...

"Our forces are often accused of violence, but if we decide just for one day or for three hours to move away from the police or military, I don't know what will become of Mozambique', he said.

Most residents are Muslim and French authorities have estimated ... Cyclone Chido continued west and made landfall Sunday in Mozambique, where it killed three people, injured 34 and destroyed ...

Mayotte's 320,000 residents were ordered into lockdown as cyclone Chido bore down on the islands around 500 kilometres (310 miles) east of Mozambique ... adding that the Muslim custom of burial ...

Ascertaining a precise death toll is difficult, a French official said, because Mayotte is a “Muslim land where the ... mostly in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe. Cyclone Freddy left more ...

Mayotte, situated in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Mozambique, was pummelled by ... because Mayotte is a Muslim land where the dead are buried within 24 hours," a French interior ...