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Now that Mayotte is a département the disparity in per capita gross domestic product (currently a ratio of 1:10) is likely to increase. "It may cause problems," Hubert Derache, the prefect of Mayotte, admits. "We shall have to work hard in two areas to keep a strong hold on illegal immigration, and to step up regional co-operation in order to boost development on the spot. We need a situation where young people on Anjouan no longer assume their future lies on Mayotte." But from the peaks of the neighbouring island Mayotte may continue to look attractive for quite a while.|

"The hospital was a throwback to the days of Albert Schweitzer," Taillefer says. Josiane Henry, now in charge of medical treatment at the brand new general hospital in , the main town, confirms this view: "In the 1980s we were treating the same diseases you find in poor countries. Nowadays we've moved on to the diseases of the rich. Mayotte has made massive progress."|

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Nineteen people were rescued and taken to Mayotte after the vessel foundered on a coral reef Saturday, while another 15 people are missing and feared drowned, according to officials.|

On the other hand, France has been generous when it comes to funding. Ever since its first development scheme in 1987 it has paid out €680m ($960m) in annual subsidies. Living standards in Mayotte still lag behind those of mainland France, but its economy is nevertheless booming. Michel Taillefer, the local head of the employer's federation (Medef), arrived here in the early 1980s. "It was still operating like a trading post," he says. Since then he has fallen in love with the place and wants to buried here, "underneath a frangipani tree". There were only two metalled roads and no television. You had to ring the exchange to make a call and the electricity supply was intermittent. Once a month a cargo ship sailing the Durban-Colombo route would stop by. You either got used to the local chow or lived on canned food. Local government was minimal.|

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