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President of Comoros Azali Assoumani said that he would talk to Paris over plans to expel all illegal migrants from the French island of Mayotte. Most of the migrants are Comorians. The president of the Indian Ocean Archipelago, earlier said that he would not accept any of the migrants, sent back from Mayotte
President of Comoros Azali Assoumani said that he would talk to Paris over plans to expel all illegal migrants from the French island of Mayotte. Most of the migrants are Comorians. The president of the Indian Ocean Archipelago, earlier said that he would not accept any of the migrants sent back from Mayotte.
Azali Assoumani said that his government would establish a communication channel with France for resolving the issue, keeping in view the territorial dispute between his country and France on the Comorian island of Mayotte. France plans to send back illegal migrants from Mayotte’s shantytowns who had migrated from Comoros in search of better livelihood. They are undocumented migrants, most of whom are Comorians. Mayotte is only 70 km away from Comoros.
The French government has not given a precise date for the launch of the operation. It is known that French police are already stationed in Mayotte to evict the people from the shanty settlements. Many African and Comorian migrants die every year trying to reach Mayotte illegally, onboard small overloaded fishing boats.
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Nearly half of Mayotte’s 350,000 inhabitants do not have French nationality. However, a third of the island’s foreigners were born there, says the French National Institute of Statistics (INSEE).
