Teachers, bus workers and residents mobilized over insecurity and violence affecting schools and transport. The protests widened into a strike and broader criticism of public-service conditions and the state’s response. Contemporary reporting counted about 1,000 marchers in Mamoudzou on 20 February; local concerns cannot be reduced to a single security demand.
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What concerns were central to Mayotte’s February 2018 marches?
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Teachers, bus workers and residents raised safety and public-service concerns.