“Water will be 90% restored by the end of the day, tomorrow morning at the latest,” says the resigning Overseas Minister

The inhabitants of Mayotte are growing impatient despite the return of running water in the capital of the archipelago, a week after the passage of the devastating cyclone Chido. “The water will be 90% restored by the end of the day, tomorrow morning at the latest,” said the resigning Minister of Overseas Territories Jean-Noël Buffet, Sunday December 22, on the set of the show “Le Grand Jury” RTL/M6/Le Figaro/Public Senate “We have five treatment plants, four have been restarted. 90% of the networks [d’eau]this represents 70% of the population” in Mayotte, he said. “As of the end of this weekend, 90% of the population will be connected to running water, two days out of three for eight hours via what we call water towers”had promised a little earlier the resigning Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, in an interview with Sunday newspaper. Follow our live stream.

In areas with precarious habitats, “everything is destroyed”. A Mayotte, “everything is destroyed [dans les zones où les habitats sont les plus précaires], there is nothing left”, declared Jean-Noël Buffet. While flying over the island in a plane, he claims not to have seen “very few people”. “The question is: where are they?”he asks.

More than 1.5 million liters of water delivered on Sunday. A container ship from the CMA-CGM company is due to deliver 1.6 million liters of water on Sunday, the Interior Ministry announced on Saturday. Friday evening, Emmanuel Macron had promised at least partial connection of homes to water from Saturday.

Around fifty caregivers arrived to set up a field hospital. Forty-five caregivers arrived in Mayotte on Saturday to set up a field hospital at the Cavani stadium in Mamouzdou, reports Mayotte the 1st. He will be able to accommodate up to 100 patients per day from Tuesday, reports our journalist present on site.

A day of national mourning planned for Monday. France will observe a day of national mourning on Monday, Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday on X. On Monday, the head of state had already promised to organize this day of contemplation “in the face of this tragedy which upsets each of us”. The devastating passage of Cyclone Chido left at least thirty dead, but the authorities fear a much higher toll.