CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The French territory of Mayotte was battered by a new tropical storm Sunday, just weeks after the worst cyclone to hit the islands in nearly a century laid waste to entire neighborhoods and villages and left authorities facing a huge recovery effort.
Mayotte issued a red alert and people were ordered to stay in their homes or find a solid shelter, and store food and water, as Tropical Storm Dikeledi brought heavy rains and strong winds to once again pound France’s poorest department. Some areas were experiencing flooding.
Mayotte, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa, had only just begun
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