Did you know that France purchased a Caribbean island owned by Sweden, or that the United States bought Florida from Spain?

The Comoros Islands are often overlooked by mainstream tourists although they have a lot to offer, with Miringoni Beach being ...

In the ruins left by Cyclone Chido, people from Mayotte, off the eastern coast of Africa, are calling to deport the ...

Cyclone Chido not only ravaged Mayotte’s infrastructure but also laid bare tensions between the island’s residents and its ...

Cyclone Chido killed at least 94 people in Mozambique in its deadly rampage through the Indian Ocean last week, the country's ...

Mayotte, a French department located between Madagascar and mainland Africa, has a population of 320,000, including an ...

MORONI, Comoros Islands (AP) — Tourists clad in bathing suits watched from the beach Sunday as rescue workers pulled bodies from the partially submerged wreckage of an Ethiopian jetliner that ran out ...

But it is feared the toll may rise sharply given the scores of undocumented migrants from the nearby Comoros islands, who tend to inhabit Mayotte's many shantytowns flattened by the storm.

After Cyclone Chido hit the Indian Ocean islands of Mayotte, Emmanuel Macron told locals that they would be “10,000 times ...

The devastation from Cyclone Chido that shattered corrugated metal shacks and thousands of lives on the island of Mayotte was ...

The islands, close to the Comoros archipelago, first came under France’s control in 1841. In 1974, Mayotte voted to stay French at the same time the three main Comoro islands opted to form an ...

The visit took a testy turn when French President Emmanuel Macron was criticized for being out of touch about what was ...