Mayeni Jones

I'm in a neighbourhood called Bandlabas. It's one of the few neighbourhoods on the island that has electricity, because we need electricity to broadcast. But the vast majority of the island is still plunged in darkness. A lot of people don't have somewhere to sleep. They're sheltered tonight. They're living in makeshift accommodation. Some are sleeping in the open air.

And a lot of people are gradually starting to rebuild their houses. As we drove around today, we spoke to lots of people who had started trying to find some corrugated iron roofs, some bits of wood to try and rebuild their houses because they say they don't know when reconstruction work will start properly.

Yes, that's what's worrying a lot of people, is that many people are still missing. And because most of the missing live in informal settlements, they don't know exactly how many. They don't know exactly where they are. A lot of the efforts have been focused on trying to get...

food and water to the survivors but many of the residents have spoken to describe you know whole neighborhoods that have completely collapsed particularly in some of the bigger slums in the capital so there's a lot of concerns still about the death toll and that it may still rise further once food and water has been distributed to people and some power has been restored and that the work of kind of trying to find some of these bodies starts they're worried that the death toll may go much higher

He was only initially meant to be here for the day, but he's decided to stay on overnight. And I think that it's in an effort to show the people of Mayotte that he isn't somebody who just kind of flies in and flies out when there's a crisis, but that he's willing to kind of sit in the crisis with them.

I think the gesture has been appreciated, but I think a lot of people are still very frustrated at the response. It's been five days still, and lots of people are complaining that they're hungry as we were driving around, people asking for food. Lots of people still don't have access to water.

And lots of people also blame him for the situation because they say if he had met his promises of improving the infrastructure of Mayotte, which is France's poorest department, that they wouldn't be in the situation now.