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Plane crashes off Comoros, all ...
Moroni :: Comoros | 6 months ago
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A plane crashed in the Indian Ocean off the Comoros Islands yesterday after suffering mechanical problems, but all 29 people on board survived, officials said. The Embraer jet went down about 200 metres from Moroni airport, five minutes after taking
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Three dead, 13 missing in French accident
Pamanzi :: Mayotte | 8 months ago
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Monday after a boat carrying illegal immigrants capsized in the Indian Ocean off the French overseas territory of Mayotte, the local prefect's office said. Eight others survived the accident on the boat, which had departed from the Comoran island of
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Comoros: Abnormal Rain Brings Crop Damage, Disease
Moroni :: Comoros | 11 months ago
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Rain Brings Flooding, Crop Damage, Disease 20 June 2012 Johannesburg Some 65,000 people on the Comoros islands, or 8 percent of the population, were affected by flooding, power outages and an increased incidence of disease following heavy rains
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Mayotte moves to modernity
Mamoudzou :: Mayotte | 2 years ago
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Richard Bouhet/AFP France made only a token gesture when Mayotte , a group of islands between Comoros and Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, became its 101st departement . The government dispatched the minister for overseas territories, Marie-Luce
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COMOROS: Government wage bill ballooning
Mutsamudu :: Comoros | 2 years ago
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The convoluted transition of the Comoros presidency could push the government's wage bill to more than three-quarters of its revenue, "exceeding [its] budgetary capacity", the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a statement after a recent
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COMOROS: Missing guns delay demobilization process
Moroni :: Comoros | over 2 years ago
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Hundreds of weapons used in a revolt on Anjouan, one of three islands in the Comoros archipelago, remain unaccounted for, causing the government to change its strategy for disarmament, demobilization and reintegration...A seaborne landing by African
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Comoros votes in elections aimed at ending power row
Moroni :: Comoros | over 2 years ago
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Rating Moroni The Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros voted today to elect a new president to replace incumbent Ahmed Abdallah Sambi whose extended stay in power has threatened the stability of the coup-prone islands. Voting got off to a peaceful
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Coup-prone Comoros starts vote for president
Fomboni :: Comoros | over 2 years ago
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The coup-prone Comoros held first-round voting Sunday in presidential elections, following years of political crisis in the Indian Ocean archipelago. Voting was restricted to Moheli, the smallest of the union's three islands, which will produce the
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Comoros president to quit next year
Moroni :: Comoros | over 2 years ago
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Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi said on Thursday he would not extend his stay in office "even by an hour" when his term expires on May 26 next year. But by then, Sambi will have already prolonged his mandate by exactly one year. The decision
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Comoros president reshuffles government
Moroni :: Comoros | almost 3 years ago
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The president of the troubled Indian Ocean state of Comoros reshuffled the cabinet Tuesday, in a move aimed at defusing political tensions between the coup-prone archipelago's islands. "The president of the republic has reshuffled the government," a
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