Emmanuel Macron discreetly received his Comorian counterpart Azali Assoumani on Monday evening. The meeting, which had not been announced, lasted about forty minutes.
It took place against a backdrop of diplomatic tensions caused by the "Wuambushu" operation conducted by the French authorities in Mayotte. The operation is aimed at dislodging irregular migrants, mostly from neighboring Comoros, from the unhealthy slums of Mayotte and is denounced as "brutal" and "anti-poor"