Comoros

If we are to honour our freedom, we must also stand in sympathy with our neighbours, whose struggles remind us that democracy is never guaranteed. Their pain must be felt as our…

Only five of the 15 countries in the region have signed the International Convention on Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance

The vote count began in the evening after polling stations closed, sometimes by candlelight

This year provides an intriguing opportunity to see what will happen given the renewed partnership agreements with other regional blocs such as the EU

The former leader was also stripped of the right to vote and hold public office and his property and assets were confiscated for the public purse

Nongovernmental organisations applying for observer status at the African Union are subjected to intense scrutiny but a non-African state merely needs the approval of the AU…

The United States is negotiating with African countries that will see them exchange Palestinian people’s rights for improved economic and trade conditions

As the storm neared, schools were closed and inter-island hopper flight suspended

The arrest of a top opposition leader has plunged the Indian Ocean islands into chaos once again

​Burdened by a long history of turbulence, the Indian Ocean archipelago risks renewed unrest

Two former Comoros presidents are suspected of embezzling millions of dollars from a scheme that sold passports to foreigners to finance development

France, SA and Mozambique will give trawlers in the Mozambique Channel a harder time, but can they control the $23bn a year industry?

A new festival of contemporary arts is shaking up the Comoros with provocative works that confront the island nation’s fraught post-colonial history.

The IMF has unveiled a three-year ,5-million package for the Comoros to help consolidate economic gains.

French and US aircraft joined the hunt on Wednesday for possible survivors from a plane that crashed off the Comoros archipelago.