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As France’s youngest department, with more than half its population under the age of 18, Mayotte naturally focuses on many education-related issues. It is an ideal playing field for the entertaining and educational activities of PLAY International, an NGO that uses sports to combat exclusion...

In Mayotte, the newest French department, AFD has signed a partnership agreement with NGO PLAY International to set up and promote an educational and sporting project which sits at the heart of the fight against all types of discrimination. The project highlights gender stereotypes and violence...

Present in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, France has five departments and regions and seven overseas collectivities which are home to 2.7 million French citizens. Scattered across the globe, the overseas territories concentrate 97% of France’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) – the second...

Faced with increasingly competitive world tourism, the islands of the Indian Ocean are joining forces to become a common destination. The idea is to create a joint marketing banner, economies of scale and an inter-island travel offer based on ecotourism. The initiative is led by the association...

Based in Mamoudzou, AFD's Mayotte office is attached to the Indian Ocean Regional Division.

At the Interministerial Committee for International Cooperation and Development (CICID) on February 8, 2018, the government made a commitment to strengthen the integration of overseas territories into their regional ocean basins by supporting cooperation projects with neighboring states....

Sharing the rich natural heritage of Overseas France was the objective of the “Photographing Overseas France” (“Photographiez les outre-mer”) contest held in August by Wikimedia France, the French Ministry for Overseas France, and AFD.