Overseas territories, Mayotte and French Polynesia occupy, these days, the headlines.
For reasons nevertheless as remote as the geographical distance which separates these two archipelagos: more than 16,000 kilometres.
In the Indian Ocean, massive illegal immigration from the Comoros and growing insecurity are mobilizing and revolting a large majority of Mahorais.
The latter have just called Paris for help.
And they want at all costs to remain the 101st French department, a status obtained in 2011 which gives them access to the main social aid.
Independence, there is no question.
Thus France can also maintain an exceptional geostrategic position facing southern Africa.
In the heart of the Pacific, not far from Australia, the reality is quite different.
Admittedly, misery and inequalities are also the daily lot of many of the approximately 300,000 Polynesians who do not have access to social shock absorbers: cash…
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