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French PM addresses security, health, immigration during visit to crisis-hit Mayotte

Elisabeth Borne has visited the Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte to address a number of issues that have created considerable tension acorss the archipelago including water shortages, housing, and illegal immigration from neighboring Comoros.

Radio France Internationale

Search Underway For 13 Missing After Ship Sinks Off Greek Island

A major rescue operation was under way on Sunday for 13 people missing after a Comoros-flagged cargo ship sank in gale-force winds off the Greek Aegean island of Lesbos.

International Business Times

Comoros citizens save stranded whale calf

A whale calf was stranded on August 13 near the Moroni port in Comoros. Locals mobilised on a grand scale to rescue the 10-tonne creature, keeping it alive until it was free to swim away. A livestreamed video shows the impressive rescue effort.

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Ukraine war: failed African peace mission underscores need for more powerful political and military pressure on Putin

African peace missions to Ukraine and Russia last week came up empty-handed. Led by South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa, the delegation included leaders and senior officials from Congo-Brazzaville, Comoros, Egypt, Senegal, Uganda and Zambia.

The Conversation

Missiles greet African peace mission visit in Ukraine

The leaders of South Africa, Senegal, Zambia, the Comoros and Egypt have met Ukrainian defence ministry representatives in the capital Kyiv.

The New Daily

Ferry link resumes between Mayotte and Comoros amid migration row

A maritime link between the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte and the Comoros resumed on Wednesday after a weeks-long suspension following unrest sparked by a migration row.

Radio France Internationale

Anti-migration operation on French African island of Mayotte stirs tensions, exposes inequalities

France is facing a migration quagmire on the island territory of Mayotte off Africa’s east coast

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Money from France will not help Comoros swallow the Wuambushu pill

Azali Assoumani, president of the Union of Comoros and the African Union rotating chairman, told RFI that he will not accept the forced repatriation by France of around ten thousand people from Mayotte to the Comoros. Nor will he accept a financial compensation to take undocumented Comorians from Mayotte as…

Radio France Internationale

Saudi Arabia Maintaining Efforts to End Military Escalation in Sudan

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah held telephone talks on Tuesday with his counterpart from the Comoros Dhoihir Dhoulkamal. The officials tackled the ongoing efforts aimed at ending the military escalation in Sudan and providing the necessary protection to civilians and residents so that security and stability…

Asharq Al-Awsat

41 Saudi Citizens and Nationals of 10 Countries Arrive in Jeddah from Sudan

Saudi Arabia, under the directives of its leadership, continues to make efforts to evacuate its citizens and nationals of brotherly and friendly countries from Sudan. On Monday's evening, 41 Saudi citizens and 171 individuals of various nationalities arrived at the H M S "Abha" ship, including citizens from Afghanistan, the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Authorities on Mayotte demolish slum, continue plan to deport Comorians

French authorities on Thursday razed an informal settlement on the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte after overnight unrest sparked by government plans to clear slums and send illegal migrants back to the neighbouring Comoros.

Radio France Internationale

Why are people being driven from the postcard paradise of the Comoros?

A French court has halted the controversial clearance of a slum, and the expulsion of migrants from the French Indian Ocean island territory of Mayotte. The expulsion plan has provoked clashes between locals and security forces, and sparked tensions with neighbouring Comoros, where boatloads of returned migrants are being refused…

Radio France Internationale

Comoros refuses to accept deported migrants from French Mayotte, closes port

Comoros has refused to allow a boat carrying migrants to dock from the French Indian Ocean department Mayotte, where the authorities have announced a controversial operation against illegal migrants.

Radio France Internationale

Comoros refuses migrants expelled from French island of Mayotte

The Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros vowed Friday not to accept migrants expelled from the neighbouring French island of Mayotte in a looming operation that has caused a diplomatic spat.

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Saudi Crown Prince Meets Presidents of Djibouti, Comoros, Lebanese PM

Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, held talks in Riyadh on Saturday with President of Djibouti Omar Guelleh. They tackled bilateral relations between their countries and ways to bolster them. Crown Prince Mohammed also met with President of the Comoros Azali Assoumani for talks on cooperation between…

The Independent UK

Ex-president of Comoros convicted of selling passports

Local media reports say a court in the Indian Ocean island of Comoros sentenced former President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi on Monday to life in prison for illegally selling off Comoros passports

Al Jazeera

Ex-Comoros president given life sentence over passport scandal

Former president, who had already spent four years in prison before facing a trial, is a rival to the country’s leader.

France 24

Comoros court sentences former president to life in prison

A court in the Comoros on Monday handed down a life sentence for high treason to ex-president Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, who was convicted of selling passports to stateless people living in the Gulf.

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Evening Standard

Ghana World Cup 2022 guide: Star player, fixtures, squad, one to watch, odds to win

The year started disastrously for Ghana as they were dumped out of the Africa Cup of Nations after a shock defeat to Comoros left them bottom of the group.

WEKU

Visa dissonance: Why world music performers can't always make it to the stage on time

Sounds like a musician's dream come true: A duo from the African nation of Comoros was invited to Peter Gabriel's world music fest. But there was a daunting obstacle: Getting a visa to enter the U.K.

The Independent UK

Lone survivor of 2009 plane crash testifies in Paris court

The lone survivor of a 2009 plane crash in the Indian Ocean took the stand Monday in a Paris courtroom

The Conversation

Debt distress in Africa: biggest problems, and ways forward

The COVID pandemic has had a profoundly negative impact on Africa’s sovereign debt situation. Currently, 22 countries are either in debt distress or at high risk of debt distress. This means that African governments are struggling to pay the debts that they incurred on behalf of their states. For example,…

WEKU

Paris trial to open for 2009 plane crash that left 152 dead and 1 alive

The flag carrier airline from Yemen is being tried in Paris over the injuries of a then-12-year-old girl and the deaths of 65 French citizens.

Reuters

Fourteen people missing after Tanzanian aircraft crashes in Comoros, owner says

Rescuers in the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros are searching for 14 passengers and crew on a Tanzania-registered light aircraft which crashed over the weekend, the plane's owner said on Monday.

France 24

'A beautiful celebration has been tarnished': Cameroon football president Eto'o responds to stampede

At the Africa Cup of Nations, the action on the pitch has been overshadowed by Monday's deadly stampede outside the stadium hosting Cameroon's match with Comoros that left eight people dead. Questions have also been raised over host country Cameroon's Covid protocol.

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