Comoros

After great success of first edition - 65 companies and 3.500 participants, the second edition of the trade fair aims at 5.000 visitors, a hundred exhibitors and 70 speakers, representing one of the most important events for Comorian businesses

Independent National Electoral Commission has begun to renew the electoral rolls: it will register Comorians living in the country and abroad, transfer polling stations, rectify marital status and delete names in case of death or loss of voting rights

President of Union of the Comoros appointed members of the Independent Electoral Commission, perceived by the Common Front of Forces (one of the opposition movements) as 'a willingness to ignore expressed demands' and a 'disregard for the electoral code'

Several teachers who had been suspended following an audit conducted by a commission of enquiry have been reinstalled, confirmed the Secretary General of the Intersyndical of Education Agents

The president of the Comoros archipelago said he wanted talks with Paris about plans to expel all illegal migrants from the French island of Mayotte, most of whom are Comorians

As Operation 'Wuambushu' approaches in Mayotte, a teacher warns of the consequences for students and families, particularly of the risks of 'expulsion' and those related to the destruction of homes, fearing a xenophobic anti-Communist 'cleansing'

Each Comorian candidate for the pilgrimage will have to mobilise 3.240.000 francs to fulfil the fifth pillar of Islam, an 8% increase

The prices of food and basic necessities in the country have grown to a point that some products such as rice, flour, vegetable oil and meat products have almost doubled in the recent crisis escalation

A vaccine against the papillomavirus - the virus that causes cancer of the cervix, vagina and vulva - has been validated by the Council of Ministers

To better tackle the problem of rubbish in Mutsamudu, Fomboni and Moroni, Comoros main cities, the Japanese government has granted the Union of the Comoros a donation of $2.270.497

A list of organisations, structures and movements considered 'terrorist organisations' has been issued in an ordinance released by the Ministry of the Interior

21 MPs out of 24 approved the bill "fixing the number of electoral constituencies for the election of members of the Assembly of the Union of the Comoros"