in Petite-Terre, with the energy of despair, the inhabitants are already busy rebuilding

Electric cables hang on the roads in the middle of a burned landscape, bristling with a few shredded palm trees. Of unequaled power, Cyclone Chido, in a few hours last Saturday, ravaged the island of Mayotte, where Emmanuel Macron is expected to go this Thursday. “ On the hills, a few days ago, there were hundreds of houses. They were all shaved », says Abacar, a resident who no longer recognizes his island. The violence of the winds and rain notably got the better of the “bangas”, these precarious habitats made of sheet metal, all of which fell like a house of cards. In front of piles of scrap metal and trash bags piling up, only a few mailboxes remain, the stigma of a broke social life.

On Petite-Terre, this island of Mayotte which faces Grande-Terre, residents who no longer have a roof over their heads are already working on reconstruction. Chanfi-Ali Harmed, who saw his house completely swept away, brings together…