Comoros

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France says 21 drowned trying to reach Mayotte

Reuters US Online Report World News 75 days ago

PARIS (Reuters) - Twenty-one migrants drowned trying to get to France's Indian Ocean island of Mayotte from Comoros, the French immigration ministry said Thursday. Eleven survivors were found clinging to the skiff's wreckage and were taken to hospital in Mayotte, about 40 ...

Comoros opposition leader arrested

AFP Global Edition 84 days ago

The leader of the Comoros archipelago's opposition Ridja party, Said Larifou, was arrested by police Tuesday in the capital Moroni, an AFP photographer reported. Larifou, who holds dual French and Comoran citizenship, was detained two days after openly criticising Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed ...

Comoros delays parliamentary polls

AFP Global Edition 108 days ago

Authorities in the Indian Ocean Comoros isles on Saturday announced an indefinite delay of parliamentary and local elections originally set for next month. The polls in the three islands of Grande Comore, Anjouan and Moheli were to take place on November 29 ...

Black boxes from Yemenia Airways flight damaged

AP News 158 days ago

Expert says black boxes from downed Yemenia Airways plane damaged in Comoros crash A Comoran investigator says the black boxes from a Yemenia Airways flight that crashed into the Indian Ocean in June are damaged. Mohamed Ali Abdou says investigators are still ...

Second black box of crashed Yemenia jet retrieved

AFP Global Edition 165 days ago

Search teams have found 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. The Cockpit Voice Recorder had been located and operations were under way ...

COMOROS PLANE CRASH

AP News 165 days ago

Map shows the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros, near where the Yemania Airways flight crashed June 30, Copyright 2009 AP News

Black box from Comoros crash recovered: investigator

AFP Global Edition 165 days ago

The flight data recorder from the Airbus A310 operated by Yemenia Airlines that crashed on June 30 off the Comoros, killing 152 people, has been recovered, the chief investigator said Friday. "The investigation commission confirms that the flight data recorder... was recovered ...

Six bodies, wreckage found from Comoros crash

AFP Global Edition 170 days ago

Pieces of the wreckage of the Airbus A310 operated by Yemenia Airlines that crashed on June 30 off the Comoros islands have been identified and six bodies have been found, investigators said Sunday. The search for the plane's two black boxes in ...

Six bodies found, wreckage, from Comoros crash

AFP Global Edition 171 days ago

Pieces of the wreckage of the Airbus A310 operated by Yemenia Airlines that crashed on June 30 off the Comoros islands have been identified and six bodies have been found, investigators said Sunday. The search for the plane's two black boxes in ...

Submarines stop search for Air France black boxes

Reuters US Online Report World News 173 days ago

PARIS (Reuters) - French submarines have halted their search for the flight recorders of an Air France jet that crashed into the Atlantic on June 1, killing all 228 people aboard, investigators said on Thursday. "The search has not been able to ...

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