French president Emmanuel Macron has sworn during an exchange as he was heckled by angry residents of a Mayotte neighbourhood ravaged by cyclone Chido, telling them: “If it wasn’t for France, you’d be 10,000 times deeper in s***”.
Nearly a week after the storm hit, the lack of potable water was testing nerves in France's poorest overseas territory, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean. Officials have confirmed at least 35 people were killed by the cyclone but there are fears that many more have died.
