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New school term in Mayotte off to difficult start six weeks after cyclone Chido

A maintenance worker cleans a classroom in one of the elementary schools of the village of Passamainty, in the township of Mamoudzou in Mayotte. AFP - MARINE GACHET

Some 115,000 pupils began returning to school in Mayotte on Monday, six weeks after cyclone Chido devastated the French Indian Ocean archipelago. Conditions remain difficult for both teachers and pupils and some schools remain shuttered for the time being.

The start of the school year, scheduled for 13 January, had already been postponed twice due to the severe damage caused by Chido and storm Dikeledi.

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