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Destructive Cyclone Chido unearths tensions between locals and migrants in France’s Mayotte

MAMOUDZOU, Mayotte — Cyclone Chido not only ravaged Mayotte’s fragile infrastructure but also laid bare deep-seated tensions between the island’s residents and its large migrant population. Fatima, who only gave her first name because her family is known locally, added that “the island can’t support the people living in it, let alone allow more to come.” Mayotte, a French department …

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6 days, 17 hours ago

Cyclone Chido: Thousands feared dead in France as biggest storm in 90 years rips apart Mayotte island

Live Mint

Hundreds and possibly thousands of people are feared dead after cyclone Chido hit France's Mayotte. French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday announced that he would visit Mayotte soon after cyclone Chido ripped through the French Indian Ocean territory. "At the meeting of the crisis unit, I ensured that all emergency measures to help the people of Mayotte were taken and …

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1 week ago

About 1,000 feared dead as Cyclone Chido hits France’s Mayotte ‘like the apocalypse’

Firstpost

In the worst cyclone to have hit the French overseas territory of Mayotte in 90 years, Prefect François-Xavier Bieuville said he expected the final death toll to reach ‘close to a thousand or even several thousand’ This undated photo provided by NGO Medecins du Monde on Sunday, December 15, 2024, shows a devastated hill on the French territory of Mayotte …

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Cyclone Chido batters French island territory, 2 dead amid destruction

India Today

Cyclone Chido obliterated shantytowns on the French island territory of Mayotte on Saturday, with French ministers fearing a "heavy" death toll from the destruction, which has already claimed two lives. Acting Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said the storm had left a "dramatic" trail of destruction on the impoverished islands, warning that the territory's numerous shantytowns had been "completely destroyed". "It …

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1 week, 6 days ago

At least 8 killed in building collapse in Cairo

Associated Press

CAIRO — An apartment building collapsed on Tuesday in Egypt’s capital, killing at least eight people, authorities said. The Health Ministry said in a statement that the collapse of the six-story building in Cairo’s western neighborhood of Waili also injured three people, who were hospitalized. Building collapses are common in Egypt, where shoddy construction and a lack of maintenance are …

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1 year, 3 months ago

New Delhi got a makeover for the G20 summit. The city’s poor say they were simply erased

Associated Press

NEW DELHI — New Delhi’s crowded streets have been resurfaced. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government hopes the elaborate effort to make New Delhi sparkle — a “beautification project” with a price tag of $120 million — will help showcase the world’s most populous nation’s cultural prowess and strengthen its position on the global stage. But for many street vendors and …

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1 year, 3 months ago

New Delhi destroys homes, shantytowns for G-20 makeover, displacing thousands

LA Times

Migrant laborers climb over a wall, newly painted in preparation of the Group of 20 summit in New Delhi. But for many street vendors and those crammed into New Delhi’s shantytowns, the makeover has meant displacement and loss of livelihood, raising questions about the government’s policies on dealing with poverty. Abdul Shakeel, with the activist group Basti Suraksha Manch, or …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Cairo building collapse: 12 killed as residents removed number of walls for maintenance work

India TV News

A five-story apartment building collapsed Monday in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, leaving at least 12 people dead, authorities said, as rescuers continued to search through the rubble. The state-run MENA news agency said rescue teams pulled bodies from the wreckage and sent four survivors to a hospital following the collapse in Cairo's Hadaeq el-Qubbah neighbourhood, roughly 2 miles from …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Shacks, crayfish and holding on for dear life: How four villages north of Perth stayed put despite the odds

ABC

Shack life and crayfish defined four villages 220 kilometres north of Perth for more than five decades. When lobster fishermen Ian Boyd arrived in Jurien Bay with his family in 1965 "there was no bitumen roads, no power, no water, there was just two rows of shacks". "One year — 1966, I think — we had 108 boats moored off …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Customized cars, SUVs take parties on the road in Venezuela

Associated Press

CARACAS, Venezuela — Dozens of people dance rhythmically, almost shoulder to shoulder, in a neighborhood in the outskirts of Venezuela’s capital, transforming a narrow street into a mini dance festival. With car audio, you close your eyes and rise,” said car owner Luis Daniel “El Leon” Castro. “I see it as a party, something very good, and not only that, …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Brazil scrambles to help the poor, while they barely hang on

The Independent

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3 years, 6 months ago

After another war, displaced in Gaza face familiar plight

Associated Press

BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip — It took Ramez al-Masri three years to rebuild his home after it was destroyed in a 2014 Israeli offensive. “We live in death every day as long as there is an occupation,” he said, referring to Israel’s rule over Palestinians, including its blockade of Gaza. After the 2014 war, al-Masri bounced around between rental homes …

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Destructive Cyclone Chido unearths tensions between locals and migrants in France’s Mayotte

Cyclone Chido: Thousands feared dead in France as biggest storm in 90 years rips apart Mayotte island

About 1,000 feared dead as Cyclone Chido hits France’s Mayotte ‘like the apocalypse’

Cyclone Chido batters French island territory, 2 dead amid destruction

At least 8 killed in building collapse in Cairo

New Delhi got a makeover for the G20 summit. The city’s poor say they were simply erased

New Delhi destroys homes, shantytowns for G-20 makeover, displacing thousands

Cairo building collapse: 12 killed as residents removed number of walls for maintenance work

Shacks, crayfish and holding on for dear life: How four villages north of Perth stayed put despite the odds

Customized cars, SUVs take parties on the road in Venezuela

Brazil scrambles to help the poor, while they barely hang on

After another war, displaced in Gaza face familiar plight