Abaturage bo mu birwa bya Mayotte bavuga ko bahuye n’akaga gakomeye cyane nyuma y’umuyaga w’inkubi ukomeye, ari nawo munini cyane wahageze mu myaka 90 ishize mu karere gakorana n’u Bufaransa.
Ibikorwa byo gutabara birakomeje muri ako karere nyuma y’uyu muyaga uzwi ku izina rya Chido, wahanyuze mu ijoro ryo ku wa 14 Ukuboza, ukangiza byinshi.
Abatabazi, barimo n’abaje baturutse mu Bufaransa, barakomeza gushakisha abashobora kuba barokotse bakoresheje ibikoresho byo gucukura no gutabara.
Abayobozi bavuga ko bigoye kumenya umubare nyawo w’abamaze kugwa muri aya makuba kubera umubare munini w’abimukira badafite ibibaranga , barenga 100,000 , muri aka gace gatuwe n’abaturage bagera ku 320,000. Icyakora, umuyobozi w’akarere (Prefet) yavuze ko umubare w’abapfuye ushobora kugera ku bihumbi.
François-Xavier Biéville yabwiye ikinyamakuru cyo muri Mayotte, La 1ère, ati: “Nibaza ko hazabaho abantu amagana ku magana, ndetse bashobora kugera no ku bihumbi.”
Iki kiza cy’umuyaga wa Chido kivugwa ko cyasenye ibice binini by’ubutaka, aho umuyaga wacyo wari ufite umuvuduko wa kilometero 225 mu isaha (225 km/h).
Imipfunda y’amazi ku nkengero z’inyanja y’Ubuhinde mu majyaruguru y’izi nyanja yari ifite uburebure buri hagati ya metero enye na metero umunani.
Amdilwahed Sumaila, umuyobozi w’umujyi wa Mamoudzou, ari na wo murwa mukuru w’ako karere, yagize ati: “Imihanda ntiyorohewe, nta muntu ucyambuka… Hazakenerwa ibiribwa n’amazi kandi tugomba gushaka uko tubibagezaho.”
Umuvugizi wa Croix Rouge y’u Bufaransa, Eric Sam Vah, yabwiye BBC ko ibintu bihari ari “urudubi”. Yavuze ko babashije kuvugana n’abakorerabushake 20 muri 200 ba Croix Rouge muri Mayotte, avuga ko afite impungenge ko umubare w’abapfuye ushobora kuba munini.
Vah yabwiye ikiganiro Today cya BBC Radio 4 ati: “Hari uduce twatuwe cyane n’abaturage babayeho nabi cyane twangiritse burundu. Kugeza ubu nta makuru dufite ku bari bateshejwe ibyabo, ariko ibintu bishobora kuba bibi cyane mu minsi iri imbere.”
‘Nabonye igice cyose cyangirika burundu’
Bamwe mu baturage bo muri Mayotte bavuga ko bafite ibibazo bikomeye by’ibiribwa, amazi, n’aho kuba.
Umwe wo mu gace ka Mamoudzou, aho yari arimo gutegereza imfashanyo, yagize ati: *”Tumaze iminsi itatu tudafite amazi, ibintu bitangiye kuba bibi.
“Turi kugerageza gushaka uburyo buke bwo kwirwanaho kugira ngo turebe uko twakomeza kubaho, kuko ntituzi igihe amazi azagarukira.”*
Mohamed Ishmael, undi muturage wa Mamoudzou, yabwiye Reuters ko ibyabaye muri ako karere ari akaga gakomeye.
“Birasa n’aho habaye intambara ya kirimbuzi… Nanjye nashoboye kubona n’amaso yanjye agace kose kangirika burundu.”
Aya magambo ni inkuru yanditse mu Kirundi ivuga ku bikorwa by’ubutabazi nyuma y’igihuhusi (umuyaga mwinshi wifite imbaraga) cyiswe Chido cyibasiye uturere tumwe mu burengerazuba bw’inyanja y’Ubuhinde, harimo i Mayotte n’i Mozambike. Dore uko nayasobanura mu Kinyarwanda:
Ku cyumweru tariki ya 15 Ukuboza, indege ya mbere yari itwaye abaganga, imiti, n’amaraso yageze i Mayotte ivuye mu kirwa cya Reunion, kimwe mu bice by’Ubufaransa biherereye muri kilometero 1,400 uvuye i Mayotte mu nyanja y’Ubuhinde.
Abakozi b’ubutabazi 110 baturutse mu Bufaransa bari mu rugendo rugana i Mayotte.
Biteganyijwe ko kuri uyu wa mbere Minisitiri w’Ubutegetsi bw’Igihugu w’Ubufaransa, Bruno Retaillo, azagera muri ako karere, aherekejwe n’abandi bakozi b’ubutabazi 160.
Iki gihuhusi Chido cyibasiye na Mozambike ku cyumweru, aho cyahitanye byibuze abantu batatu, gisenya ibintu byinshi, ndetse kigatuma ibice byinshi bibura umuriro w’amashanyarazi.
Mayotte ni akarere k’Ubufaransa kari mu burengerazuba bw’inyanja y’Ubuhinde, hagati y’amajyaruguru ya Mozambike n’amajyaruguru ya Madagascar. Gusa ni akarere kagibwaho impaka, kuko ibirwa bya Comores bivuga ko ari ibice byabyo.
Mayotte yakoronijwe n’Ubufaransa mu 1841. Kuva mu ntangiriro z’ikinyejana cya 20, Ubufaransa bwashyizeho ubundi bwiganziro ku yandi mazinga atatu y’ingenzi agize Archipel y’Ibirwa bya Comores biri mu Nyanja y’Abahinde.
Mu mwaka wa 1974, Comores yakoze amatora yayigejeje ku bwigenge, ariko Mayotte yihitiramo kuguma ari igice cy’Ubufaransa.
Uyu munsi, Mayotte yakira impunzi nyinshi zitagira ibyangombwa ziza zishakisha ubuhungiro. Ariko kandi, bivugwa ko benshi muri izi mpunzi bahura n’ubuzima bukomeye, cyane cyane kubera ko akenshi baba batuye mu mahema adakomeye.
Ubuzima bw’abaturage ba Mayotte cyane cyane bushingiye ku nkunga ziva mu Bufaransa, ariko 75% by’abaturage babarirwa mu bakene, kandi kimwe cya gatatu cyabo ni abashomeri.
