Macron swears while addressing islanders on cyclone-hit Mayotte

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, swore during a furious exchange with residents of the cyclone-hit islands of Mayotte on Thursday night, telling a jeering crowd in the French territory: 'If it wasn’t for France, you’d be 10,000 times deeper in shit."
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Cyclone Chido swept through Mayotte, which is between Madagascar and Mozambique in the Indian Ocean, on 14 December, destroying infrastructure and flattening many of the tin-roofed shacks that make up its large slums. Almost a week after its worst storm in 90 years, France’s poorest territory still has water shortages

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