Residents try to rebuild a house in Mamoudzou after the passage of Cyclone Chido in Mayotte, December 18, 2024
PHOTO AFP / DIMITAR DILKOFF
This concerns products such as mineral water (natural or from a source not containing added sugar), food products and drinks, alcoholic or not, animal feed and plant treatment products and fertilizers.
The list also includes batteries, dressings, basic hygiene and cleaning products, as well as construction products and materials, electrical equipment and tools.
The text came into force upon its publication overnight and is valid for wholesale, retail, online sales but also production sales prices as well as import margins “and at all stages of distribution of the products concerned.
Prices cannot be “higher, all taxes included, than those reached on December 13, 2024 or, failing that, on the nearest earlier date, for each establishment in Mayotte”.
The decree offers the prefect of Mayotte the possibility of setting by decree maximum prices “applicable to all establishments in the same category of businesses”, based on average prices observed before the cyclone in a representative sample of establishments. .
Cyclone Chido, the most intense that Mayotte has experienced in 90 years with winds of more than 220 km/h, hit the archipelago on December 14. According to a provisional report from the Ministry of the Interior, it left 31 dead and 1,373 injured, even if the authorities anticipate a much higher number of victims.
Aid has started to arrive in the archipelago, where Emmanuel Macron is due to arrive and where the supply challenges are immense, particularly in water and basic necessities.
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