In 2021, all the indicators of the prefectural report on the fight against illegal immigration were on the rise in Mayotte, in the eastern part of the Comoros archipelago: arrests on land rose by 47% (23,124 in 2021 against 11,849 in 2020) and arrests at sea by 59% (6,355 in 2021 against 3,989 in 2020), according to the prefectural report.
Results which are explained first of all by a shorter confinement period in 2021 (one month) than in 2020 (six months, during which the renewals had been stopped or slowed down), but also by a reinforcement in the number of forces order and by supporting aerial surveillance of the maritime domain between Mayotte and the Union of the Comoros.
According to the prefecture’s 2021 report, 459 “kwassas” (light motor boats) were intercepted and destroyed