Reports of widespread damage are emerging from Mayotte after a 100-year cyclone ripped across the French archipelago Saturday ...

However, Mayotte’s airport remains closed to civilian flights because of extensive damage, leaving only military aircraft able to fly in and out. The airport is not expected to reopen for ...

The French territory of Mayotte was battered by a new tropical storm Sunday, just weeks after the worst cyclone to hit the ...

Mayotte’s airport has reopened to commercial flights, allowing civilians to return to the French Indian Ocean archipelago ...

"Mayotte is demolished," an airport security agent told Macron as soon as he stepped off the plane. The security agent, Assane Haloi, said her family members, including small children, are without ...

"Take your time. Stay with us. Give us solutions," an airport security worker named Assane Haloi told him. "Give us emergency ...

The damage, including to Mayotte’s sole airport, has left some areas inaccessible to emergency teams. Many people ignored the cyclone warnings in the 24 hours before the storm hit ...

Mayotte's main airport, however, remained closed to civilian flights on Monday morning, said Jean-Paul Bosland, the president of France's national firefighters' federation. ($1 = 0.9525 euros ...

Mayotte, in the southwestern Indian Ocean off ... were also rushed in on military aircraft and ships. Damage to the airport's control tower meant only military aircraft were able to fly in.

noting that flights cannot land at night yet given how badly the airport was affected by the cyclone. France is “standing by their side with a helping hand,” Retailleau said of the Mayotte ...