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150 Feared Dead In Yemeni Air CrashBernamaSANA'A, June 30 (Bernama) -- A Yemeni airliner with 150 people on board crashed in the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, ...and more »
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Yemenia Says Flight IY626 Had 142 Passengers, 11 Crew AboardWall Street JournalDUBAI (Zawya Dow Jones)--Yemen state carrier Yemenia Tuesday said the airliner that has crashed off the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean had 153 ...and more »
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TIMELINE-Deadly plane crashes in the last three yearsReuters AlertNetJune 30 - A Yemen Airways aircraft carrying a total of 153 people crashes in the waters of the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros. (Writing by David Cutler ...and more »
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Yemeni plane crashes in Comoros - An airliner with 150 people on board belonging to Yemeni state carrier Yemenia Air crashed in the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros on Tuesday, a senior government official said. "We don't know if there are any survivors among the 150 people on the plane," Comoros vice-president Idi Nadhoim told Reuters from the airport at the main island's capital Moroni. Nadhoim said the accident happened in the early hours of Tuesday, but could not give any more details ...
Reuters. An airline official confirmed to Reuters that 142 passengers and 11 crew were aboard the Airbus 310 traveling from the Yemen capital San'a to Moroni, on the main island of Grand Comore. Ibrahim Kassim, a representative from regional air security body ASECNA, said the plane probably came down 3 to 6 miles from the coast, and civilian and military boats had been mobilized to start searching. "We think the crash is somewhere along its landing approach," Kassim told Reuters. "The ...
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...for Yemen, (AP / Airbus - FIxion, HO) A passenger jet with up to 150 people on board has crashed near the Comoros, an archipelago off the east coast of Africa. It's unclear if there are any survivors. The Airbus 310 is operated by Yemeni state carrier Yemenia...
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MiamiHerald.comYemen Plane Crashes in Comoros With 150 on Board, Reuters SaysBloomberg... crashed in the Comoros Islands with 150 people onboard, Reuters reported, citing the vice president of the Indian Ocean archipelago, Idi Nadhoim. ...Yemen Jet Crashes With 150 AboardWISN.comJet Goes Down in Indian Ocean With 153 AboardNew York TimesYemen official: Comoros-bound plane crashesWashington PostVoice of America -Aljazeera.netall 591 news articles »
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Breaking: Yemeni airliner crashes with 150 on boardSeattle Post IntelligencerA Yemenia-Yemen Airways plane has crashed in the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros, Reuters is reporting. The airliner had 150 people on board, ...and more »
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Chatter: What we're hearingGlobalPostA Yemeni airliner with 150 people on board has crashed in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago, sadly a place where the means for search and rescue ...and more »
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Airliner crashes in Comoros with 150 on boardFinancial TimesMORONI, June 30 – An airliner with 150 people on board belonging to Yemeni state carrier Yemenia crashed in the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros on ...and more »
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...(Reuters) - An airliner with 150 people on board belonging to Yemeni state carrier Yemenia Air crashed in the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros on Tuesday, a senior government official said. "We don't know if there are any survivors among the 150 people...
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Airliner crashes in Comoros, 150 on board-officialReutersMORONI, June 30 (Reuters) - An airliner belonging to Yemeni state carrier Yemenia Air crashed in the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean with 150 people ...and more »
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New bat is already on the endangered listIndependent OnlineScientists have discovered a new species of bat that weighs just five grams on the Comoros island archipelago in the Indian Ocean. Manuel Ruedi, a scientist ...and more »
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Comoros on track with structural reforms - IMFReutersEconomic growth on the Indian Ocean archipelago in 2009 is not expected to surpass the 1.0 percent achieved last year, underpinned by donor-funded public ...Statement at the Conclusion of an IMF Staff Mission to the ComorosOrganisation de la Presse Africaine (Communiqué de presse)all 5 news articles »
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...petition to cancel the vote which critics said is illegal and would foment chaos in the archipelago. The impoverished archipelago is one of the most volatile regions of Africa. It has seen 19 coups and coup attempts since its independence from France in 1975....
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Independent Online
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...with France begun in 1974, when Mayotte split from three other islands in its archipelago which chose independence and became the Comoros. The African Union and the Comoros administration -- which sees Mayotte as a territory "occupied" by France -- have denounced...
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France 24
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...worsened during the roughly seven years of rule by the ousted Bacar government. Political volatility has been a hallmark of Comoros since the islands achieved independence from France in 1975. To date the archipelago has weathered about 20 successful and attempted...
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AllAfrica.com
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...backed by African Union forces and with logistical help from France, ousted Col. Mohamed Bacar from the capital of one of the archipelago's three main islands this week. Bacar had claimed the presidency of the Anjouan island and spoke of seceding from the...
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Centre Daily Times
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...the island. Bacar, who has so far eluded troops, had spoken of seeking independence for the island. Anjouan is part of the Comoros - an archipelago of three main islands 250 miles off Africa's southeast coast. Each of the three main islands has a regional...
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Centre Daily Times
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...his house. Photograph: Jose Cendon/AFP/Getty images African Union forces and troops from the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros helped seize the rebel island of Anjouan yesterday, forcing the self-declared rebel leader to flee apparently dressed as a woman,...
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Guardian Unlimited
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...dawn as hundreds of troops backed by the African Union moved into Anjouan, one of three main islands making up the Comoros archipelago. There was no official word on casualties, but an Associated Press reporter saw an elderly man being carried after he apparently...
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Malaysia Sun
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The Comoros archipelago enters yet other period of trouble as government troops invade the rebel island of Anjouan. FRANCE 24's reporter Franck Berruyer is in the Comoros and writes about his experience. ... AU troops train ahead of invasion france 24 comoros
The Comoros archipelago enters yet other period of trouble as government troops invade the rebel island of Anjouan. FRANCE 24's reporter Franck Berruyer is in the Comoros and writes about his experience.
The Comoros archipelago enters yet other period of trouble as government troops invade the rebel island of Anjouan. FRANCE 24's reporter Franck Berruyer is in the Comoros and writes about his experience. ... UA troops arrive in MOHELI Comoros FRANCE 24
The Comoros archipelago is set for another period of trouble as government troops gear up to invade the rebel island of Anjouan. FRANCE 24's reporter Franck Berruyer is in the Comoros and writes about his experience.
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...restaurants, recreational facilities and retail. The hotel's 150 rooms and suites will all be in excess of 45m2. Comoros archipelago is located in the Mozambique channel and comprises four distinct islands which are Grande Comore, Moheli, Anjuan, and Mayotte...
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...remote Moheli island, which is the closest point to Anjouan on the archipelago off Africa's east coast. The smallest of Comoros' three islands, with an estimated population of about 40,000 people, Moheli is also its poorest. But it has a special place in...
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Reuters Alert Net
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...UNDP's Human Development Index. But despite the international community clearly signaling its interest in re-engaging with Comoros, initiatives such as HIPC come with conditions. Political stability is one: a criterion the archipelago will find difficult...
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...are applying sanctions targeted at the renegade leadership of Anjouan, one of the three islands comprising the Union of Comoros. The fragile unity of the Indian Ocean archipelago - Grande Comore, Moheli and Anjouan - hangs in the balance, and "further delay...
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... Sept 9 (Reuters) - Political tensions on the coup-prone Indian Ocean archipelago Comoros are discouraging private investment and foreign aid, vital to the impoverished nation. African Union mediators (AU) are trying to resolve the latest crisis -- a standoff...
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...Sept 9 (Reuters) - When the dissident authorities of tiny Anjouan island wanted to prevent the national president of their Comoros archipelago visiting, they simply ordered a baggage trolley onto the runway. The snubbed leader turned his plane and flew away. ...
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...an International Monetary Fund (IMF) poverty reduction programme which might have led to cancellation of the Indian Ocean archipelago's enormous debt, the IMF said. The federal government wants Anjouan, one of three islands in the coup-prone archipelago,...
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...to engage the Comorian authorities," a statement said. Tuesday's meeting of the AU committee of countries overseeing developments in the Comoros deplored Anjouan's holding of elections not recognised by the Indian Ocean archipelago's federal government. ...
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Independent Online
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...defence and security component", had met with government representatives of the Union and the three autonomous islands in the archipelago. The history of Comoros has been plagued by successful and attempted coups, and the more recent temporary secession of...
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...in the Comoros on Saturday to help resolve the confrontation and strongly denounced the fighting, particularly considering the archipelago's volatile political history and the successful Union presidential elections held one year ago. "This problem is very...
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...clashed with local police on Wednesday, according to local media. Elections for each island are scheduled in June, but the archipelago's delicate power-sharing agreement hangs in the balance. Heavily outnumbered national army forces had taken control of...
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Reuters Alert Net
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...coups since gaining independence from France in 1975. In 1997, the islands of Anjouan and Moheli declared independence from Comoros, the main island in the archipelago. Moroni - Guns fell silent on Thursday on the Comoros island of Anjouan after heavy...
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...Ahmed Ali Amir MORONI, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Comoros has called for international help to defuse a crisis that flared when internal security talks failed in the coup-ridden archipelago, officials said late on Tuesday. The talks were aimed at establishing security...
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...delegation to the Indian Ocean archipelago earlier this month to discuss possible treaties on farming and fishing. "The Comoros and Sudan are expecting to reinforce their cultural and economic cooperation," Daoud Athoumane, a diplomatic adviser to Sambi,...
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... In a message to an international donors' meeting in December 2005, where US $200 million was pledged to help the Indian Ocean archipelago overcome chronic poverty and instability, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan noted that "the presidential elections have...
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... Moroni, Comoros - A volcano erupted in the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros, belching lava and white smoke into the air and prompting dozens to flee their homes, an observatory official said on Monday. Orange flames lit up the evening sky, after...
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... MORONI, Comoros - A volcano has erupted on the main island of the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean, forcing dozens of people to flee their homes, residents said Monday. The 7,700-foot Mount Karthala began belching lava and smoke Sunday...
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...is full of lava. We don't know which direction it will flow," Col. Ismael Daho, head of the emergency management team for the Comoros archipelago, told Reuters.
Residents were nervous, but the volcano's periodic past eruptions, which have rarely...
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Reuters
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...in fear of poisonous gas and a possible magma flow. It was the volcano's first eruption in more than decade on the archipelago nation, 300 km off the coast of east Africa. "Effectively there is an eruption but we don't know yet if there will...
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Ninemsn
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...in fear of poisonous gas and a possible magma flow. It was the volcano's first eruption in more than decade on the archipelago nation, 300 km off the coast of east Africa. "Effectively there is an eruption but we don't know yet if there will...
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...Wang Hongda) Comorans voted peacefully Sunday in a presidential election they hope will help stabilize the Indian Ocean archipelago after 30 years of coups, assassinations, military rule and attempted secession. The vote was held a day after...
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Boston Globe
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...of a presidential election which observers see as a key test of whether, after three decades of instability, the Indian Ocean archipelago can make the transition to peaceful political change. Since independence from France in 1975, the country has...
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BBC News
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...France in 1975, the Comoros have been plagued by coups, and more recently the temporary secession of Anjouan and Moheli. The archipelago's constitution was amended in 2001 to give the individual islands their own semi-autonomous government and president. ...
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AllAfrica.com
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...constitution, the island will pick the candidate for the next president of the Union of the Comoros. The Comoros archipelago has been plagued by coups, assassinations, military rule and attempted secession since independence from in 1975. ...
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People's Daily Online
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...announced, but some officials said he had been sick for some time. Mr. Djohar was elected president of the Comoros, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, in 1990 but was ousted by a band of mercenaries led by Mr. Denard in September 1995. French...
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