Child care lacks resources
In an audit report on the cost of child welfare policy in Mayotte, the regional audit chamber points the finger at “the lack of accounting and budgetary rigor of the Department, which distorts the reading of financial information and the functional distribution of personnel costs between maternal and child protection and child welfare. The magistrates highlight “the efforts of the community to develop care for minors and young adults”, even if it is still half the national average.
The regional audit chamber also launches an alert : “The operating appropriations under the ASE will not cover the payment of invoices relating to previous years and the costs of maintaining an activity at least equivalent to 2022 (…). The continuation of the dynamic remains dependent on the additional resources that the State will allocate. » But the community is slow to obtain an update of the agreement which sets the compensation paid by the State and which expired on December 31, 2021.
Immigration clandestine : interceptions on the rise
The latest assessment of the fight against illegal immigration in Mayotte, covering the first nine months of the year, show a sharp increase in the number of interceptions. From January to September 2022, 457 kwassa-kwassa were caught in the cracks, a figure up 23% compared to the same period of 2022. In total, 648 boats were detected, suggesting that 191 of them were able to dock and disembark their passengers on Mahorais soil. 350 smugglers have been arrested and brought to justice since January 1 ; 285 were sentenced to prison and banned from entering the country for three to five years. The number of passengers arrested in nine months amounts to 23,288. Arrests at sea increased by 14%, those carried out on land by 9%. A total of 17,250 people have been returned to the border since the start of the year.
Low-carbon cement for social housing
Sixth French cement group, Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies announced on November 8 the signing of a partnership agreement with AL’MA, the real estate subsidiary of Action Logement in Mayotte. The objective of this agreement is to promote the construction of efficient housing with a very low carbon footprint., by using clinker-free cements developed by Hoffmann.
The partnership runs until 2030. During the creation of AL’MA in March 2022, the Action Logement group has made a commitment to produce 5,000 housing units in ten years.
