Comoros News

JOHANNESBURG, 9 November 2009 - Thinning out the top-heavy governance system of Comoros is creating tensions in the Indian Ocean island state, the International Monetary Fund said in its October 2009 country report.

Zambian President Rupiah Banda Thursday held a closed-do or meeting with former president Jean-Baptiste Bagaza of Burundi at the state house in Lusaka, where they discussed various issues aff ecting the Great Lakes Region, according to presidential aide Dickson Jere.

A chronology of key events: 1527 - Portuguese cartographer Diego Ribero depicts the Comoros islands on a European map for the first time.

The European Commission has decided to launch a Plan of Action to find a permanent way to improve and strengthen the transportation l i nks between Africa and Europe, PANA reported from here Friday.

With H E Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, president of the Union of the Comoros, and his wife, Djoudi Hadjir Hide 25 September 2009: Barack Obama and his wife Michelle take on the job of cardboard cutouts at the seaside as they pose for a series of seemingly identically posed photos with world leaders at the Metropolitan Museum in New York

The Union of the Comoros-flagged ship Lady Belinda sank in the Soai Rap River Monday after crashing into a bridge Ho Chi Minh Citya s Sea Traffic Police Department has recommended pressing criminal charges against those responsible for an incident in which a foreign ship crashed into a city bridge last week.

Fuel and other oil leaking from a foreign ship that sank in the Soai Rap River in Ho Chi Minh Citya s Nha Be District on Monday has been contained, Vietnamnet reports.

Researchers looked at airline accidents across the globe and, their new study calls for standardizing commercial aircraft maintenance.

The 12-year-old girl who survived a Yemeni airliner crash by clinging to wreckage in the Indian Ocean flew back to Paris yesterday for an emotional reunion with her father.

The digital memories of the two black boxes recovered from the Yemenia Airbus A310 airliner have been damaged, according to a Cormoran investigator.

Florida Atlantic University will receive nearly $1.2 million from the federal government to continue research into harnessing energy from the powerful Gulf Stream off Florida's coast.

The Visalia Police Department's bomb-disposal robot retrieves a suspicious duffel bag under one of the front tires of a police car parked in the Tulare County Courthouse parking lot Thursday morning.

Deep-water search teams have successfully retrieved one of the "black box" flight recorders from a Yemeni airliner that crashed near the island nation of Comoros in the Indian Ocean in late June, the chief Comoran air accident investigator said Friday.

SANA'A, Aug 30 - Exactly two months after Yemenia Flight 626 crashed into the Indian Ocean, both black boxes of the ill-fated plane were finally retrieved on Saturday.

MORONI: Search teams have located the second flight data recorder of the Yemenia jet that crashed off the Comoros islands on June 30, killing 152 people, the chief investigator said Saturday.

Moroni - Deep-water recovery specialists on Friday retrieved the black boxes of a Yemeni jet that plunged into the Indian Ocean off the Comoros archipelago in June.

June 2009 looks set to be the most expensive month in the aviation insurance market since September 2001, a report by Aon has revealed.

MORONI, Comoros: The state prosecutor in the Comoro Islands on Monday asked a court to jail four government ministers on Grande Comore Island on charges of violence and abuse of authority.

MORONI, Comoros: The state prosecutor in the Comoro Islands on Monday asked a court to jail four government ministers on Grande Comore Island on charges of violence and abuse of authority.

An airliner with 150 people on board belonging to Yemeni state carrier Yemenia crashed into choppy seas as it came in to land on the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros today, officials said.