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News Comoros » Anjouan » Culture: Fight to save last forests of the Comoros unites farmers, NGOs

News channel or source: https://phys.org/news/2025-08-forests-comoros-farmers-ngos.html

Published on: Sunday 17 August 2025

Strips of bare land scar the lush and green mountainsides towering above Mutsamudu, the capital of the Indian Ocean island of Anjouan. On the most mountainous and densely populated island in the ...

News Comoros » Anjouan » Culture: Authoritarianism in Comoros Is Resurgent

News channel or source: https://www.cfr.org/articles/authoritarianism-comoros-resurgent

Published on: Tuesday 30 October 2018

Comoros is no stranger to authoritarian rule, having been plagued by coups and coup attempts since independence from France in 1975. The country transitioned to democratic rule in 2001 with the ...

News Comoros » Anjouan » Culture: Surviving Cyclone Chido in Comoros: A Story of Hope and Resilience

News channel or source: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2025/03/13/surviving-cyclone-chido-in-comoros-a-story-of-hope-and-resilience-afe

Published on: Wednesday 12 March 2025

• In December 2024, Cyclone Chido hit Comoros and destroyed homes and crops on the islands of Anjouan and Mohéli, leaving many without food and shelter and endangering livelihoods. As a member of the ...

News Comoros » Anjouan » Culture: Encouraging signs from a no-fishing zone in Comoros could inspire others

News channel or source: https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/encouraging-signs-from-a-no-fishing-zone-in-comoros-could-inspire-others/

Published on: Wednesday 06 August 2025

Signs of improvement in fisheries arising from a small no-fishing zone in the Indian Ocean nation of Comoros could inspire the establishment of more such zones across the archipelago. A fishers’ group ...

News Comoros » Anjouan » Culture: Comoros trains youth tour guides to promote sustainable tourism

News channel or source: https://whc.unesco.org/en/events/1612/

Published on: Wednesday 01 September 2021

Comoros National Center of Documentation and Scientific Research (CNDRS), with the support of UNESCO, organized a two-day capacity-building workshop entitled “Training of Tour Guides for the Heritage ...

News Comoros » Anjouan » Culture: Comoros finalizes Sustainable Tourism Management Plan

News channel or source: https://whc.unesco.org/en/events/1610/

Published on: Tuesday 13 July 2021

A training workshop to finalize the Sustainable Tourism Management Plan for Comoros was held for the national team on 13 and 14 July 2021, as part of the project "Capacity Building in Sustainable ...