A delicate ecosystem was disrupted in the Comoros, off East Africa, when forests were cleared to make way for farmland. The consequences offer lessons for other parts of the developing world.

The rare bat is found only on two small islands of Anjouan and Mohéli in the Comoros archipelago, off the southeast coast of Africa. Around 19 of the 21 remaining bat roost sites have been ...

The Comoros Islands want to position themselves as a top African tourist destination in the Indian Ocean. But not at any price. Comoros is a volcanic archipelago off Africa’s east coast, in the ...

And yet Comoros remains in the shadow of its regional neighbours. According to UN World Tourism Organisation figures, Seychelles had 276,000 tourists in 2015, Mauritius 1.15m, Réunion 426,000 ...

Comoros President Azali Assoumani was re-elected for a fourth term in January 2024 in a poll disputed by the opposition as "fraudulent". He secured the win with 63% of the vote.