Tag: Comoros

The newly re-elected president of the Comoros, Azali Assoumani, has now managed to centralise power in his hands and has pushed through constitutional changes...

Comoros security forces killed at least three gunmen in a shootout at a military base in the capital after renegade soldiers broke out of...

Police in Comoros used teargas to disperse demonstrators led by opposition leaders protesting against what they said were fraudulent presidential elections, witnesses said. Opposition candidates...

Authorities in Comoros placed the governor of strife-torn Anjouan Island under house arrest on charges of instigating unrest in the province, as...

Five days of clashes between protesters and police in Comoros' Anjouan island have subsided after the national government, local authorities and the...

Troops shot and killed two "criminals" in clashes on Comoros' Anjouan island, a government official said, amid a wave of unrest against...

The Indian Ocean state of Comoros will hold a constitutional referendum on July 30 on presidential term limits that could result in...

Sixteen countries have alarming levels of hunger, with Burundi the worst affected, according to an annual index released on Monday which also...

At least 50 people including children drowned in rough seas when a passenger boat sunk off the Comoros archipelago in the early...

Comoros has met conditions to start receiving debt relief under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and...

Comoros' highest court has annulled a law which extended the mandate of the Indian Ocean islands' leader after weeks of heightened political...

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that a preliminary review had found that Comoros was eligible for relief...

Police on the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros have arrested 10 opposition politicians who reject a new law extending the president's mandate...