The last born of the French departments celebrates his birthday without joy.
Ten years after the departmentalization of Mayotte, on March 31, 2011, at the end of a long process, this archipelago in the Indian Ocean remains undermined by its social, economic and migratory difficulties, to which has been added an unprecedented health crisis.
What does this territory of 280,000 inhabitants look like, attached to France in 1841, which threatens to ignite at any time?
An unfinished catch-up
The departmentalization of Mayotte, demanded by part of the population from 1958, until its broad adoption by local referendum (95.24%) in 2009, has not yet made it possible to complete social recovery and economic expected.
With 35% of its working population unemployed and 77% of its inhabitants below the poverty line, the archipelago, both department and overseas region (Drom), remains the poorest territory in France.
Emblematic illustration of the delay, nearly a third of Mahorais live in
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