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IMF and World Bank Announce Comoros Can Start Receiving Debt Relief
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) have determined that the Union of the Comoros has taken the...
Comoros: Chairperson of the Commission of the AU stresses the need for a consensual resolution of the institutional issues facing the Union of the Comoros
The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Mr. Jean Ping, has been closely following the recent developments in the Comoros, especially...
Comoros in mourning
The Comorian President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi Thursday evening declared national mourning for 30 days, in tribute to the crash victims of Yemenia flight A310....
Constitutional referendum in the Comoros: more than 90% say “yes”
According to preliminary results from a Constitutional referendum in the Union of Comoros, more than 90% of the population of the population voted "yes"...
Ex Comoros PM Hamadi Madi Bolero arrested
Former Comoran Prime Minister Hamadi Madi Bolero was arrested Thursday at the Mohéli Airport following an arrest warrant issued against him last January, police...
Comoran-registered Turkish ship capsizes off Tripoli, 5 missing
Five crew members are missing while two have been rescued after a Comoran-registered Turkish ship capsized in the waters off the Tripoli Port on...
Comoran ship catches fire
A Comoran ship, Bushralher, caught fire at the port of Moroni on Monday, but firemen promptly brought it under control, the gendarmerie brigade at...
French Minsterial visit to Comoros rejected by Parliamentarians
French State Secretary for Overseas France, Yves Jégo, who was scheduled Thursday to begin a day-long visit to Moroni with his Cooperation counterpart, Alain...
Comoros : Christian Church profaned
The Moroni Protestant Church has been desecrated by unidentified people with obscene words written in black ink on the walls. The paper "L'Archipel" said...
Anjouan elections slated for June
The Anjouan Island will elect its president by late June, according to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI), Ali Saïd.
"The electoral...
New president for Anjouan
Six days after the Comoros army backed by African Union forces invaded the island of Anjouan and put to flight Colonel Mohamed Bacar, an...
Comoros : Ex-VP surrenders, others caught hiding in a cave
The former vice-president of Anjouan and former secretary-general of the Indian Ocean Commission (OIC), Caambi El-yachroutu, Sunday surrendered to the Comorian military authorities on...
Comoros reconstruction pledged by AU
Following the defeat of Colonel Mohamed Bacar's illegal regime in the Island of Anjouan during the week, the African Union (AU) is looking into...
Comoros : Rebels warned
The Alliance for the Liberation of Anjouan, made up of the Comoran military supported by AU forces from Tanzania and Sudan, has presented rebels...
Comoros’ rebel island under union gov’t control
Comoros took control of its rebel island of Anjouan on Tuesday in a military operation aimed at toppling renegade leader, Mohamed Bacar, a government...
Comoros: Anjouan under loyalist control
The executive assistant of the Comoros president in charge of defence, Mohamed Bacar Dossar, declared on Tuesday in Moroni that the army had the...
First group of Sudanese soldiers arrives Comoros
About 100 Sudanese soldiers arrived in Moroni Thursday as part of a planned military intervention of the African Union (AU) to restore the Comorian...
AU urges Colonel Bacar to surrender to Comoros authorities
Tanzanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Bernard Kamilius Membe Monday urged Colonel Mohamed Bacar to lay down arms and surrender to Comoros authorities. "The dialogue...