If you live in an overseas department of France, then you get a good, free education and a French level of public and social services. Per capita income in New Caledonia is 10 times that in other ...

The storm is one of the most powerful to ever hit the French overseas territory. It brought winds of more than 200kph flattening entire neighbourhoods and cutting off power and communications to ...

PARIS, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Authorities will put the French overseas territory of Mayotte on red alert late on Saturday, Overseas Minister Manuel Valls said, as a tropical storm nears the Indian ...

A protest leader in Martinique went on trial on Tuesday accused of trespassing on state property during cost-of-living ...

The French overseas territory of Mayotte is located in the Indian Ocean, roughly midway between the south-east African coast of Mozambique and the island nation of Madagascar. Around 310,000 ...

Marine Le Pen learned of her father's death during a layover in Kenya as she returned from the cyclone-hit French overseas territory of Mayotte. Born in Brittany in 1928, Le Pen studied law ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Inhabitants of the cyclone-ravaged French overseas territory of Mayotte were advised on Friday to ensure they could shelter in sturdy buildings and had food and water over the ...

Authorities have put the French overseas territory of Mayotte on red alert late on Saturday, Prefect Francois-Xavier Bieuville said, as a tropical storm nears the Indian Ocean archipelago that was ...

Having been shattered by cyclone Chido less than a month ago, the south and center of the French overseas territory of Mayotte was, on Sunday January 12, struck by torrential rain from tropical ...

In response, French Minister for Overseas Territories Manuel Valls outlined on 8 January an emergency bill to rebuild Mayotte's infrastructure swiftly, proposing adjustments to urban planning ...

Tropical Storm Dikeledi was moving south of France's Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Sunday after dumping heavy rains on parts of the archipelago just weeks after it was ravaged by a ...