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Comoros, which is threatened by people being repatriated from Mayotte, said that it has resumed accepting its nationals returning “voluntarily”. Mayotte is a French island, lying 70 miles away from Comoros. France has been forcefully involved in evacuating undocumented Comorans, staying put on the island.
Comoros, which is threatened by people being repatriated from Mayotte, said that it has resumed accepting its nationals returning “voluntarily”. Mayotte is a French island, lying 70 miles away from Comoros. France has been forcefully involved in evacuating undocumented Comorans, staying put on the island.
As reported by www.trendsnafrica.com, France said last month that it would deport thousands of undocumented Comoran migrants and started razing slums as part of a security operation in Mayotte. This has triggered clashes between youths and security forces in Mayotte and fuelled political tensions with Comoros as the Comoran government refused to take in deportees from Mayotte. It also suspended docking authorisation for boats arriving from the island.
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But tensions appeared to have thawed upon the announcement by the Comoros government that it would take in those returning on a voluntary basis. Only candidates who volunteered to leave Mayotte would be admitted, according to the Comoros government sources. This decision followed after French President Emmanuel Macron and his Comoros counterpart Azali Assoumani met in Paris to ease the situation. Almost half of the Mayotte’s population of 350,000is estimated to be foreign and most of them are of Comoran origin.
