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Police and bulldozers continue to demolish tin huts of the Talus 2 shantytown on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte as part of a long-promised operation to combat substandard housing and illegal migration. IMAGES
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The controversial French policy aims to clear slums, including razing makeshift settlements, and sending illegal migrants back to the neighbouring Comoros.
A shanty town in the north of Mayotte is demolished to make way for a high school, amid an operation to clear slums on the Indian Ocean island territory and expel illegal migrants, which has sparked clashes between local youth and security forces. The operation, called Operation Wuambushu ("Take Back" in the local language), aims to improve living conditions for Mayotte locals in France's poorest department, one of several French overseas territories that span the Caribbean to the Pacific. IMAGES
The head of the French overseas department Mayotte said the island was "on the edge of civil war" following days of violence between rival gangs. Police reinforcements have been sent from the mainland to try to restore order.
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