Kawéni was pulverized, leveled from the face of the earth. Where there once stood a town of “bangas” – precarious huts – all that remains are bald hills, scattered piles of tangled wood and sheet metal, over several square kilometers. The largest slum in France, located in Mayotte on the western outskirts of the capital, Mamoudzou, disappeared with its inhabitants, like all the other informal neighborhoods on the island, wiped out on Saturday December 14 by Cyclone Chido. Among its 20,000 inhabitants, the estimated population of Kawéni where many illegal immigrants from the Comoros live, only 5,000 have joined shelters identified by the prefecture of Mayotte.
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