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Mayotte: Capsizing Boat Kills at Least 5 Economic Refugees

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Comoros, Mayotte, Breaking News, Disaster, International Relations, Labor, Migration & Immigration

Malango Actualité provides the social context [1] [fr] related to the sinking of a boat  that killed at least 5 [2], including 3 children and an infant. The fishing boat was carrying 43 people from Comoros to the French territory of Mayotte. It is the third disaster  of such kind in 2012 for Comoran economic refugees.