Reuters: Comoros Islands News

FACTBOX-Malaria's heavy toll on Africa

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:57:51 +0000

HONG KONG, Nov 6 (Reuters) - The world saw 247 million cases of malaria in 2006, causing nearly one million deaths. Around 90 percent of these were in Africa, most of them children. A child dies of malaria every 30 seconds.

China adopts "malaria diplomacy" as part of Africa push

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:57:47 +0000

HONG KONG, Nov 6 (Reuters) - In a laboratory in China's southern city of Guangzhou, scientists are trying to enhance the rare sweet wormwood shrub, from which artemisinin -- the best drug to fight malaria -- is derived.

Gulf Arab states to launch $2 bln agriculture fund

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:05:05 +0000

DUBAI, Oct 11 (Reuters)- Gulf Arab states will pour $2 billion into a new agricultural fund in coming months to secure food supplies by buying stakes in existing agricultural firms, an executive involved in the fund's creation said on Sunday.

Comoros to cut government wage bill

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:42:04 +0000

MORONI, Sept 24 (Reuters) - The Comoros government on Thursday undertook to cut its wage bill over the next three years in accordance with the terms of a $21.5 million International Monetary Fund package unveiled this week.

IMF unveils $21.5 mln Comoros package to support growth

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:39:24 +0000

* Inflation to fall to 2.3 pct in 2009 from 7.4 pct in 2008

Search to end for more bodies from Comoros crash

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:46:19 +0000

DAR ES SALAAM, July 15 (Reuters) - Tanzanian and French rescuers will call off the search for more bodies from a Yemeni plane that crashed off Comoros after pulling out 24 corpses from the waters, an official said on Wednesday.

UPDATE 2-ICAO rejects EU call for global airline blacklist

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:03:13 +0000

BRUSSELS, July 9 (Reuters) - A European Union proposal for a global blacklist for unsafe airlines was rejected by the head of aviation body ICAO on Thursday.

More bodies, plane wreckage found off Tanzania

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:36:55 +0000

MAFIA, Tanzania, July 9 (Reuters) - French marines and divers found aircraft parts and five more decomposing bodies off Tanzania's coast on Thursday, hundreds of miles from where a Yemeni jet crashed into the Indian Ocean, officials said.

UPDATE 1-Bodies, plane wreckage found off Tanzania-official

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:33:50 +0000

DAR ES SALAAM, July 7 (Reuters) - Tanzanian authorities have spotted some 13 bodies believed to be from a Yemeni airliner that crashed into the sea off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros last week, an official said on Tuesday.

Tanzania investigates reports of air crash bodies

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:06:15 +0000

DAR ES SALAAM, July 7 (Reuters) - Tanzanian police said on Tuesday they were investigating reports that some bodies from a crashed Yemeni airliner had washed up on an island.