Grappling with a new cyclone, Mayotte is in despair for the start of the school year

The Mahorese reality continues to be brutally reminded to the executive. Last week, at the end of a meeting with the teaching union organizations, the Minister of National Education, Élisabeth Borne, maintained the course of a return to school on January 13 for the 8,700 teachers of the archipelago, that of students being scheduled for January 20. In uncertain conditions, a month after the devastating passage of Chido. This was without the arrival of a new cyclone alert, which placed Mayotte on red alert this weekend. The winds and torrential rains of Dikeledi have meant the cessation of local ferry traffic and the suspension of flights to Mayotte, at least until January 15. « The administrative start of the school year was finally postponed to the 14th January, says Agnès Andersen, from the management staff union ID-FO. But the Education agents who left Mayotte during the holidays…