An Anjouan border officer check documents as Anjouan illegal immigrants who attempted to reach Mayotte island an overseas French Indian Ocean...
{"Image ImageDescription": "Anjouan, COMOROS:  An Anjouan border officer check documents as Anjouan illegal immigrants who attempted to reach Mayotte island, an overseas French Indian Ocean territory, were sent back by French authorities, arrive at Ouani's airport, in Anjouan, 14 October 2005. Comorans on rickety vessels frequently die attempting to make the 50-kilometer (30-mile) trip from Anjouan to illegally enter France through Mayotte, which is more developed that the impoverished coup-plagued archipelago on which they live. On Mayotte, which opted to remain part of France but remains a territorial bone of contention between Paris and Moroni, life is comparatively easier for the estimated 194,000 French citizens living there in a euro-based economy. Dreams of prosperity and perhaps and eventual move to mainland France have fuelled the exodus of Comorans who travel to Anjouan, the nearest island in the archipelago to Mayotte, from where they depart.  AFP PHOTO RICHARTD BOUHET  (Photo credit should read RICHARD BOUHET/AFP via Getty Images)", "Image Copyright": "2005 AFP"}