Comoros News

• Comoros: Rain Brings Flooding, Crop Damage, Disease

  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 during the wet season that runs from November through to May. Ingrid Nordström-Ho, based in Geneva and deployed by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to assist in
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 21st Jun, 2012 at 10:57AM in General    Source:Leadership  0  Comments

• Comoros: Six Kenya Policemen Detained

  SIX Kenyan policemen have for been detained for the last week in the Comoros after the islands' customs department bonded a ship wanted for evading tax. There has been no official explanation as to why the six officers were deployed to provide "escort services" to the oil exploration ship, MV Squirrel, belonging to Marine Contractors. The ship stalled in the
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 24th Feb, 2012 at 09:58PM in General    Source:Nairobi Star  0  Comments

• Comoros: Muslim leader jailed for bribe over booze

  Moroni - The Comoros has jailed one of the Indian Ocean archipelago's top Muslim clerics for attempting to bribe a government official into lifting a ban on alcohol, judicial sources said on Tuesday. Said Abdallah Rifki, secretary general at the office of the mufti (the highest Sunni Muslim authority), was found guilty of attempting to bribe an interior ministry official.
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 3rd Jan, 2012 at 10:29PM in General    Source:AFP  0  Comments

• Comoros: Toll in Comoros boat accident reaches 54

  

  At least 54 people died after a passenger boat capsized off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros, a rescue official said Wednesday, revising a previous toll of 30.
  
  President Ikililou Dhoinine declared three days of national mourning after the accident which occurred early Tuesday off the southern coast of Comoros main island of Grande Comore.
  
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 10th Aug, 2011 at 03:21PM in General    Source:Daily Times  0  Comments

• Comoros: Comoros president vows to fight graft

  

  Moroni - The new Comoros President Ikililou Dhoinine promised to fight graft on the coup-prone Indian Ocean archipelago as he was sworn in on Thursday, five months after his election.
  
  In front of a crowd of several thousand people at the parliament in Moroni, Dhoinine pledged to "stop at nothing in the fight against corruption" and
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 26th May, 2011 at 07:47PM in General    Source:Leadership  0  Comments

• Comoros: Incumbent wins Comoros Elections

  

  Ruling party candidate Ikililou Dhoinine was Wednesday declared the winner of presidential polls in the Comoros, which the opposition in the Indian Ocean archipelago claimed were marred by fraud.
  
  The 48-year-old Dhoinine, outgoing President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi's deputy and heir-designate, took 61 percent of the vote, Elections Minister Abderemane Ben Cheikh Achiraf said, reading the poll
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 29th Dec, 2010 at 06:52PM in Politics    Source:starafrica  0  Comments

• Comoros: Incumbent says Comoros elections went on peacefully

  

  The ruling party camp in the Comoros on Monday said the weekend presidential polls which the opposition claimed were marred by fraud went on peacefully.
  
  "The polls were conducted peacefully under the normal conditions of an electoral contest," said Mohamed Ali Soilihi, the running mate to Ikililou Dhoinine, who is favoured to win Sunday's vote.
  
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 27th Dec, 2010 at 07:26PM in Politics    Source:starafrica  0  Comments

• Comoros: Presidential polls in Comoros opposition accusation of fraud

  

  The Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros voted Sunday for a new president to replace incumbent Ahmed Abdallah Sambi whose extended stay in power has threatened the stability of the coup-prone islands.
  
  By the time polling stations were closing on the three islands that make up the Comoros nation, several opposition figures had claimed that voting on
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 26th Dec, 2010 at 07:49PM in Politics    Source:news24  0  Comments

• Comoros: Witch doctor hired to rig election expelled

  

  Moroni - The Comoros has expelled a Tanzanian witch doctor suspected of having been hired to rig weekend elections with his magic, police said on Thursday.
  
  The juju man arrived in the Indian Ocean state two weeks ago and was repeatedly seen at the home of Mohamed Abdoulhoihabi, the governor of the archipelago's main island of
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 23rd Dec, 2010 at 08:32PM in Politics    Source:starafrica  0  Comments

• Comoros: Court confirmed Comoros Presidential candidates

  

  The constitutional court in the Comoros on Saturday confirmed the names of the three candidates who will vie for the small Indian Ocean federation's presidency next month.
  The trio are the candidates who mustered the most votes in a primary held on November 7 on the archipelago's smallest island of Moheli, whose turn it is to provide a
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  Posted by: Staff Writer on 13th Nov, 2010 at 10:31PM in General    Source:Starafrica.com  0  Comments