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NEWS ABOUT: Comoros

Comoros stories: 6 news summaries

Thirteen Bodies, Plane Wreckage Found Near Tanzania

Remains suspected to be from Yemenia flight

Jul 7, 09 3:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thirteen bodies found off the coast of Tanzania’s Mafia Island may be the remains of passengers from the Yemen Airways flight that crashed into the Indian Ocean last week, Reuters reports. Tanzanian authorities say that airplane seats and what may be part of an airplane wing were also found... More »

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Africa • flight • Tanzania • plane crash • Indian Ocean • Comoros • accident • remains • bodies • Yemenia Air

Yemenia Air Black Boxes Too Deep for Divers 

Search continues as France sends searcher robots to Comoros

Jul 7, 09 12:11 PM CDT
(AP) - Investigators have concluded that the black boxes from Yemenia Airways Flight 626 that plunged into the Indian Ocean are too deep to be reached by divers, a French official said today. French investigators are trying to determine the exact zone where the boxes can be found using equipment that allows... More »

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black box • France • plane crash • Comoros • Yemen • disaster • Yemenia Air • diver

Sub Reports Signal from Yemenia Black Boxes

No word on when data recorders will be recovered from ocean

Jul 5, 09 10:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - A submarine has located the black boxes from Yemenia Flight 626 in the Indian Ocean, a French investigative agency said today. Divers and search crews are still working to find debris from the plane, and have recovered parts of the fuselage, reports the AP. Officials did not say when the... More »

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black box • plane crash • Indian Ocean • Comoros • Yemenia Air

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 Youngster Found Alive in Indian 
 Ocean After Yemeni Jet Crash 

Child rescued from water

Jun 30, 09 8:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rescuers have pulled one survivor the wreckage of a Yemeni airliner that went down early today in the Indian Ocean, though officials have issued conflicting details, the AP reports: one says it was a 14-year-old girl, another a 5-year-old boy. Yemenia Air Flight 626 was en route from Yemen to... More »

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Airbus • plane crash • Indian Ocean • Comoros • Yemen • Yemenia Air • Airbus A310

 Africa Crushes Comoros Coup 

20th time unlucky for Indian Ocean rebels

Mar 26, 08 3:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The latest renegades to seize power in the Comoros Islands have been defeated, reports the Independent. Government and African Union troops regained control in an amphibious assault at sunrise yesterday. The island nation in the Indian Ocean has been rocked by more than 20 coups or coup attempts, many... More »

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Africa • African Union • Indian Ocean • Comoros • mercenaries • coup d'etat

China to Test Controversial Malaria Treatment

Researchers aim to eradicate disease on African island

Jun 6, 07 7:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Chinese researcher will test a radical new strategy designed to wipe out malaria on a small African island, the International Herald Tribune reports. Mass treatment with a highly effective antimalarial drug would virtually clear the parasite from patients' blood, but critics fear the plan could backfire, causing drug resistance... More »

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China • Africa • health • drugs • malaria • public health • artemisinin • treatment • Indian Ocean • Moheli • Comoros

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