"COMESA [formerly the PTA] exists as an organisation of free independent
sovereign states which have agreed to co-operate in developing their natural
and human resources for the good of all their people'. With its 19 member
states and population of 300 million it forms a major integrated trading
block." Has information on customs tariffs by country, road/transport
including road distances, economic profiles for each country. Has
the text of Doing Business with COMESA: the Handbook, legal
guides to establishing business, etc. http://www.comesa.int/
In French. Site sets ad cookies. Has a forum on France-Africa relations,
poems, book lists, recipes,
Comorians in France, information on la Chambre de Commerce Franco-Comorienne,
short articles on Comoros events, etc. http://www.comorama.info/
Created by Martin and Harriet Ottenheimer, authors of the Historical
Dictionary of the Comoro Islands (1994) and Professors of Anthropology,
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. Informative site with history,
maps, audio file of the national anthem (for those with sounds cards),
geography, population, language, music, economy, transportation, Includes
entries from their bibliography, maps, pointers to relevant web sites.
http://www.ksu.edu/sasw/comoros/comoros.html
Edited by Helen Chapin Metz. Research Completed August 1994. Full-text.
Information on the history, society, economy, politics, national security,
bibliographies, tables. One can search
across all the country handbooks or any combination of countries and
browse the table of contents for a specific country. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/kmtoc.html
In French. Has a directory of Comoro newspapers and magazines, information
on tourism, basic facts, text of the investment code, the economy, bibliographies,
music and musicians, a history, chronology, profiles of historical figures,
an extensive stamp history with photographs, social life, pictures of phone
cards, recent political history, text of the Charte Constitutionnelle (6
mai 1999), the Accords d'Antananarivo and other documents. Information on
the volcano, Comoran associations, and links to an article on the coelacanthe.
Sells vanilla and Ylang-Ylang (perfume plant). Maintained by Mwesi Service,
Pamandzi, France and Moroni. [KF] http://www.comores-online.com
Site by Mother Jones magazine and the Coral Reef Alliance in Berkeley,
California on endangered coral reefs in Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique,
Comoros, Seychelles, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Reunion. Main page: http://www.motherjones.com/coral_reef/
Site has closed, now leads to an advertising site. Was the site of the
former mercenary in Katanga, Comores, Angola, Chad, Biafra. http://www.bobdenard.com/
In French. Political party. Youssouf Said, founder and president. "...Djawabu
Ya Komori est un parti politique comorien de Gauche, progressiste et démocratique" based
on Ali Soilihi's ideas. Party history, political history of the Comoros since
1975, editorials, declarations, interviews and Youssof Said's biography.
DjawabuYa Komori’s evaluation of the conditions in the Comoran islands
and the performance of executives in charge there. Web site based in France.
[CA] http://www.djawabu.org/
A review by Blair Orr of the book published by The Royal Botanic Gardens,
London 1997. In, the Journal of African Travel-Writing, Number 4,
April 1998 (pp. 87-89). http://www.unc.edu/~ottotwo/dorr.html
Use their Search Engine to retrieve information (some in Adobe PDF) on
the Comoros.
Includes trade with the European Union. [KF] http://europa.eu.int/comm/development/country/km_en.htm
From the publication, Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 13th
ed. (Dallas, Tx.: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1996), edited by Barbara
F. Grimes. Provides numbers of speakers by language, dialects, linguistic
affiliation, etc. http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=KM
In French. "une liste d'échange d'informations et de discussion sur
l'Archipel des Comores." To subscribe, write to: habari-subscribe@makelist.com
Past messages are on the web site. Related to the web site, Comores-Online. http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/habari/
In French. Some pages in Comorian. Commentary on events, politics, culture, science in the Comores. Contributions are signed. Recipes. Song lyrics. Comoran names. Photographs and more. Annotated links to related sites. Maintained by the Comorian Diaspora. http://www.holambecomores.com/
Founded 1989 at the Univ. of Durham (UK). Has a keyword searchable
News Database which retrieves articles from the BBC
Summary of World Broadcasts, West Africa, Keesings, and other sources. [KF]
News Database: http://www-ibru.dur.ac.uk/database/data.html http://www-ibru.dur.ac.uk
Issues Actions Alerts, tracks threats to freedom of the press, radio. Do
a keyword search on Comoros
to retrieve reports about African newspapers, and media related civil liberties
issues. Has past alerts from 1995 to date. http://www.ifex.org/
Full text reports on the Comoro's economy. Includes "Comoros:
Recent Economic Developments," "Comoros - Statistical Appendix, " and
many more reports. http://www.imf.org/external/country/COM/index.htm
Kweli Magazine. "Le magazine des Comores" (Marseille, France)
In French. News on the Comoro Islands. Selected articles online. http://www.kweli-magazine.info/kmg/
Basic country information, a map, brief information on the oil
/ gas situation. By MBendi Information Services (Pty) Ltd. a business
consulting company in Claremont, South Africa.http://www.mbendi.co.za/cycmcy.htm
Information on the history of the internet
in the Comoros. Maintained by Randy Bush, John Klensin, Steven Huter,
Michael Downhill, a major site for information on e-mail and electronic
networking in Africa. http://www.nsrc.org/db/lookup/ISO=KM
In French. Extensive information on Francophone Africa and French-African
relations. Formerly Agence de cooperation Culturelle et Technique, ACCT,
an inter-governmental organization for French-speaking countries. Has basic
facts about the Comoros from Hachette and statistics (population, language,
religion, education, health, economy. Select La Francophonie, then Les membres
de la Francophonie, then Comoros. http://www.francophonie.org/
Basic facts, government information. From the print annual, Political
Reference Almanac (Keynote Publishing, Arlington, VA). http://www.polisci.com/world/nation/CN.htm
Retrieve citations to articles, book chapters, books,
government documents, dissertations through a keyword search. The online
database covers all issues of Population Index from 1986+ (Vols.
52+) and a broad range of subjects: women's issues, fertility, migration,
child mortality, economic development and population, nutrition and health,
urban and rural spatial distribution, statistics. The Index is
published by Princeton University's Office of Population Research. http://opr.princeton.edu/popindex/
In French. Telecommunications and internet service provider in the Comoros.
Has a telephone directory, facts about the Comoros, information on the society,
economy, tourism, number of phone subscribers. http://www.snpt.km/
Provides a list of the President, Cabinet members, the Governor of the
Central Bank, the country's Ambassador to the U.S., and its U.N. Representative. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/world-leaders-1/world-leaders-c/comoros.html
Provides information for wind, visibility, temperature, heat index, dew
point, relative humidity, pressure, and a 24 hour summary. http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/KM_cc.html
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