15 agricultural hectares preserved in Kawéni
Gamil Kakal, boss of the Cananga group, signed a free loan contract on April 19 with the town of Mamoudzou for a 15-hectare area located in Kaweni, in order to reserve it for agricultural uses for a minimum period of twenty years. During this period, the municipality will be responsible for the operation of this property, which formerly housed various agricultural production and essential oil distillation activities. Between illegal immigrant slums and economic activity zone, it will host integration projects through the economy and the dissemination of good agricultural practices, with the support of the National Urban Renewal Agency.
The airport called “Marcel-Henry”
The decree was published in the Official Journal on April 9 : Pamandzi airport now bears the name Mayotte-Marcel-Henry airport, named after the Mahorais politician who died in August 2021 at the age of 94. Marcel Henry represented Mayotte in the Senate, without stopping, from 1977 to 2004. He was one of the important actors in Mayotte's resistance to Comorian independence and then the departmentalization of the island.. Sébastien Lecornu, Minister of Overseas, had proposed to give his name to the Mahorais airport the day after his death. Another name had been mentioned in recent years to baptize the platform : that of Abdourahamane Aboudou Moulkandjy, influential notable Mahorais who also opposed independence until his death in 1967. But his memory has largely faded from memory... and his name was perhaps a little too long to be remembered !
Humanitarian aid in Mozambique
The Indian Ocean Regional Intervention Platform (Piroi) of the French Red Cross PIROI has activated its emergency response system in recent weeks from the warehouse of its delegation in Mayotte to help Mozambique. Two coastal provinces of the country, Nampula and Zambézie, were hit hard, a March, by intense tropical cyclone Gombe (63 dead, 78,000 homes destroyed). 23 tons of humanitarian equipment, including home reconstruction kits, tarpaulins, buckets and jerry cans were transported from Mayotte by sea to the port of Nacala. They will be distributed by the Mozambique Red Cross and will help 5,000 people.
