Insecurity also affects port activity
Boats sometimes shorten or cancel their stopover at the port of Longoni, staff refusing to go to the site at night due to the insecurity on the Mahoran roads. The Journal de Mayotte recently drew attention to this collateral damage of the deleterious atmosphere which reigns in the hundred and first French department. The impossibility of night maneuvers delays ships, whose time is running out, and captains no longer hesitate to interrupt unloading operations, or even cancel stopovers at Longoni when they believe they will lose too much time there. This disruption of maritime traffic, which adds to the disorganization of the lines affecting the Indian Ocean, has negative consequences on local economic activity.
The population count is accurate, according to INSEE
In an article published at the beginning of January on his blog “in response to certain local questions”, INSEE reaffirms that its count of the Mahorais population (300,000 inhabitants on January 1, 2022) is correct. “Some continue to believe that the population is much larger, writes INSEE. This discrepancy between measurement and feeling can be explained on the one hand by a lack of knowledge of the census method., which in principle does not leave sections of the population in the shadows, on the other hand by specificities of the territory, which suggest that it is difficult to determine its demographics. However, INSEE implements proven statistical methods in order to measure the population living in Mayotte as accurately as possible.”. Comparisons with rice imports or the number of children enrolled in Mahorais schools corroborate the results of census operations, estimates INSEE, and the hypotheses of a population which would have reached 400,000 inhabitants, under the effect of massive illegal immigration, are not founded.
