Five weeks after the devastating passage of Cyclone Chido on Mayotte, and a week after the Dikeledi storm hit in its turn, theHumanity takes stock of the three key elements to remember, this Monday, January 20, while, since the start of the disaster, the State's response has not been up to par and has targeted migrants to better clear customs.
▷Teachers return to school this Monday
Teachers will return to school a week before their students, who are scheduled to return to school “from January 27”according to the words of Élisabeth Borne, Minister of National Education, to the newspaper The Parisian Wednesday January 15. In total, the archipelago has some 117,000 students and the Mayotte academy employs just over 10,000 people, including more than 8,000 teachers.
Initially scheduled for Monday January 13, a week before that of students, the decision to postpone the date of the administrative start for teachers and staff was announced by the Minister of National Education, at the time of the Dikeledi storm.
This storm “just tested your resilience once again as you were barely recovering from the damage caused by Cyclone Chido”wrote the Minister of National Education Élisabeth Borne in a letter addressed, Monday, January 13, to the staff of the Academy of Mayotte.
For Sophie Venetitay, general secretary of the SNES-FSU union, it was a decision ” logic “. Before the minister's announcement, the FSU, the CFDT and the Unsa had filed a strike notice on Thursday January 9 to request the postponement of the start of the school year. “Without any directive, any protocol, in improvisation, we are asked to come together” to build a “school activities resumption plan”had underlined the trade union organizations.
“Many of our colleagues remained and still remain without shelter, without water, without electricity and have lost material goods”they wrote in a press release, recalling that the school building was “partly destroyed”.
▷The emergency law for Mayotte examined in the Assembly hemicycle
The deputies begin in session Monday January 20, from 4 p.m., the examination of the emergency bill for Mayotte, the first text of the Bayrou government to be debated in the hemicycle. MEPs must look into articles allowing, for example, the State to waive certain town planning rules or facilitate funding to accelerate the reconstruction of housing, but also of schools, which have been hard hit. One measure in the bill aims, for example, to authorize the State to ensure their construction, reconstruction or renovation in place of local authorities until December 31, 2027.
In committee, several provisions voted on, however, made the left-wing deputies cringe, such as an amendment from the rapporteur Estelle Youssouffa, deputy for Liberties, independents, overseas and territories of the first constituency of Mayotte. In particular, she made xenophobic remarks by daring to assert on the benches of the National Assembly that the island is prey to “barbarians in short pants”adding “very often foreigners in an irregular situation”.
-The MP's strongly criticized amendment aims to regulate the sale of sheet metal “on presentation of an identity document”. A measure “shocking”in the words of the environmentalist deputy Dominique Voynet, who abstained from voting on the entire text in committee, because this law passes “totally” alongside the issues of « reconstruction »according to her.
Upstream and in response to the ideas that had been revealed by the government led by François Bayrou, the national secretary of the PCF, Fabien Roussel, had urged the National Assembly to create a parliamentary commission of inquiry “who goes, all tendencies combined, together on the ground, to measure not only the damage, but to measure that the government is falling behind in the means that must be deployed towards the population of Mayotte”.
▷An imported case of cholera identified in the archipelago
A case of cholera has been identified in Mayotte, the Regional Health Agency said on Sunday January 19. “This is a case imported to Mayotte”Julien Demaria, head of the health crisis communications office of the Ministry of Health, told Agence France-Presse. The patient had in fact arrived by plane on the archipelago a few hours before the detection of the disease coming from continental Africa.
“The patient was treated quickly and safely at the Mayotte Hospital Center”said the regional health agency (ARS) in a press release published Sunday January 19. A specific support circuit was set up within the establishment upon receipt of the positive result and a first medical investigation team interviewed the patient, Saturday evening 18, in order to identify the causes of the cases. contacts and other potentially exposed people.
The ARS also ensures that it has implemented actions to interrupt potential transmission of the bacteria and its establishment in the territory which could be favored by the hygienic conditions in which the inhabitants of Mayotte and the lack of access to drinking water.
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