Mayotte families express helplessness after Cyclone Chido

People bring goods for victims of Cyclone Chido in Mayotte at the House of Mayotte in Saint-Denis, Reunion Island (Adrienne Surprenant/AP)

Relatives of families struggling after Cyclone Chido ripped through the French island territory of Mayotte expressed helplessness a day before France’s president and another 180 tonnes of aid were expected to arrive.

Some survivors and aid groups have described hasty burials, the stench of bodies and the devastation of precarious informal settlements whose population of migrants makes it even more challenging to determine the number of dead.