French Prime Minister François Bayrou visited the storm-ravaged Mayotte archipelago and pledged to restore power to all households by the end of January. He also announced plans to ban the rebuilding of shantytowns, drawing criticism for not addressing the housing situation of thousands displaced by the storm.
French Prime Minister François Bayrou said on Monday that power will be restored to all households on the storm-ravaged Mayotte archipelago by the end of January, while the rebuilding of its shantytowns will not be permitted. The slow pace of aid and delays in the arrival of clean water and electricity have angered residents of France ’s poorest overseas territory, located between Madagascar and Mozambique about 8,000 km (4,971 miles) from mainland France .
The worst storm to hit Mayotte’s two main islands in 90 years, travelled to the archipelago on Monday to announce a raft of new emergency measures to rebuild, dubbed “Mayotte Standing.” A special emergency bill, which will include measures to ban the kind of makeshift housing that was ubiquitous before the storm, will be presented in a cabinet meeting on Jan. 3 and be sent to parliament in the next fortnight, Bayrou said. “We can’t let Mayotte become the capital of shantytowns,” he told reporters. “It can’t be about rebuilding Mayotte as it was. We must draw a different future for Mayotte,” he said earlier. Bayrou did not say how he would re-house the thousands, many of them undocumented immigrants from nearby Comoros, who lived in hillside shantytowns comprised of flimsy huts before the storm and who have already started rebuilding them. He was criticized for not visiting the islands earlier. President Emmanuel Macron was also heckled when he travelled to Mayotte earlier this month. Bayrou said water supplies, a flashpoint even before the disaster, will be back at pre-storm levels before the end of next week. Some 200 Starlink antennas will be deployed to help restore communication
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