Dubbed “Mayotte Standing”, the plan includes restoring electricity to every home and bans the reconstruction of shanty towns. The most devastating cyclone to hit France's poorest department in ...

Dubbed “Mayotte Standing”, the plan includes restoring electricity to every home and bans the reconstruction of shanty towns. French Prime Minister François Bayrou arrived in Mayotte on Monday, vowing ...

Many of Mayotte's shanty towns lay in ruins after the cyclone hit [Reuters] French Prime Minister François Bayrou believes dozens of people died when Cyclone Chido hit the French Indian Ocean ...

But in 1966 when apartheid was in full swing, District Six was declared a "white" neighborhood, and more than 60,000 people were forced to move to the shanty towns established in Cape Flats ...

Africa’s urban population will triple in the next 25 years and African countries will need to invest up to 5,5% of their gross domestic product (GDP) in urban development if they are to avoid rapid ...

At least a third of the territory's 320,000 residents live in shanty towns, where homes with sheet-metal roofs were flattened by the storm. The French Interior Ministry confirmed at least 11 ...

Two fire tenders managed to control the inferno. "The fire spread too quickly," said one resident, Krishna, who has lived in the shanty town for over five years. "We were all sleeping when it ...

Mayotte, France’s poorest overseas territory, is home to large numbers of undocumented migrants whose shanty towns were flattened by the storm, and many areas remain inaccessible, further ...

and many live in shanty towns. The cyclone also slammed into Mozambique with heavy rains and strong winds, killing at least 34 people and completely or partly destroying over 35,000 houses ...

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