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(From L) French Transports Minister Elisabeth Borne, French Overseas Minister Annick Girardin, French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, French Minister for Solidarity and Health Agnes Buzyn and French Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer meet local elected representatives of the French island of Mayotte on April 19, 2018 at the Hotel Matigon, French Prime minister official residence in Paris. The meeting comes after a month-long campaign of strikes and protests on the Indian Ocean island earlier this year that has shone a light on the simmering resentment in some of France's tropical outposts over perceived neglect by the state. The spice island in the Comoros archipelago, which has been governed by France since the mid-1800s, was the fourth overseas territory to be paralysed by strikes over living conditions in the past decade. (Photo by BERTRAND GUAY / POOL / AFP) (Photo by BERTRAND GUAY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)