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Comoros: Comoros Refuses to Accept Deported Migrants From French Mayotte, Closes Port
RFI, 25 April 2023
Comoros has refused to allow a boat carrying migrants to dock from the French Indian Ocean department Mayotte, where the authorities have announced a controversial operation… Read more »
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Comoros: Comoros Slams France For Plan to Repatriate Undocumented Migrants From Mayotte
allAfrica, 20 April 2023
The Indian Ocean Island nation of Comoros is urging France to stop its plans for the forced return of migrants from the neighbouring French island of Mayotte. Read more »
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Comoros: Comorian Government in Tussle With France Over French Island, Mayotte
This is Africa, 16 April 2018
France might be facing one of its because challenges on sovereignty after its officials expelled migrants from the Department of Mayotte into Comoros. The Comorian government… Read more »
Comoros Refuses to Accept Migrants from Mayotte, Closes Port
Comoros has decided to suspended all passenger traffic at the Mutsamudu port on the island of Anjouan, where deported migrants usually land from Monday April 24 to Wednesday April 26, 2023, RFI reports.
Earlier, authorities in Mayotte announced Operation Wuambushu (Take back) to remove illegal migrants who have settled in slums on the island.
"As long as the French side decides to do things unilaterally, we will take our decisions," the Comoran Interior Minister Fakridine Mahamoud said Monday, adding that none of the deported migrants "will enter a Comoran port".
Around half of Mayotte's roughly 350,000 population is estimated to be foreign, most of them Comoran. France intends to send those without documents to Anjouan, which lies 70 kilometres from Mayotte.
A Google map showing the West Indian Ocean islands of Seychelles, Comoros, Mayotte, Madagascar, Reunion and Mauritius.
