"Security"
,
"equality"
and anchoring in France against the neighboring Comoros... The accession of Mayotte to the status of department, in 2011, raised the hopes of its inhabitants, French since 1841. With the decisive support of Nicolas Sarkozy, who intended at the time
"to keep the promise made to the Mahorais"
.
A decade later, the happiness of the Mahorais has given way to anger.
The inhabitants of the Indian Ocean archipelago are living in an explosive situation, as shown by the wave of violence in recent days.
Machete clashes between young people from rival neighborhoods, record poverty, schools and hospitals saturated in the face of the demographic explosion, recurrent water and electricity cuts... Plunged into a permanent state of emergency, the children of the "ticklers" - named after the historical activists of "Mayotte department" - have lost their illusions.
To read alsoAmbdilwahedou Soumaila, mayor of Mamoudzou: “Today, Mayotte is the island of hell”
Despite the delays in the economic and social "catching up" announced, departmentalization has strengthened the archipelago as a pole of attraction...
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