$540mn pledged for Comoros Islands (Gulf Times)

Organisers of the Doha Conference in Support of Development and Investment in Union of Comoros yesterday announced that donors have pledged a total of $540mn for the development of the African nation. The country has also been accepted as a member of the Arab League for the next five years.

Qatar pledges USD 13.7 mln to development in Comoros (MENAFN)

Qatar pledges USD 13.7 mln to development in Comoros

Qatar offers QR50m in grants to Comoros (MENAFN)

Qatar offers QR50m in grants to Comoros

Qatar offers QR50m in grants to Comoros (The Peninsula)

DOHA: Qatar yesterday announced a grant of QR50m for Comoros and the donors’ conference for the country being held here hopes to raise around $500m to finance development plans in the Indian Ocean union of islands which is marred by several coups and underdevelopment.

PM announces QR50mn aid for Comoros (Gulf Times)

HE the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani announced yesterday a grant of QR50mn to the Republic of Comoros through Qatar Development Fund implemented over five years by “Development Fund of the Comoros”.

Qatar offers QR50m in grants to Comoros (Zawya)

10 March 2010 DOHA: Qatar yesterday announced a grant of QR50m for Comoros and the donors' conference for the country being held here hopes to raise around $500m to finance development plans in the Indian Ocean union of islands which is marred by several coups and underdevelopment.

PM to open Comoros investment conference (The Peninsula)

Doha: The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani will open on Wednesday a conference to support investment and development in the Republic of the Comoros to be hosted by Qatar in collaboration with the Arab League, the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) and the United Nations Fund for Development.

Prime Minister to open Comoros aid conference (Gulf Times)

HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani will open on Wednesday a conference to support investment and development in the Republic of the Comoros to be hosted by Qatar in collaboration with the Arab League, the Organisation of Islamic Conference and the United Nations Fund for Development.

Africa : Removing Incentives For Coups in Africa (AllAfrica.com)

Lagos — Getting rid of the incentives for military take-overs on our continent is, if you ask me, something both the ECOWAS regional grouping and the pan-African organization, called the African Union, A.U., have yet to take seriously.

Al-Qaida vet 'takes over Somali jihadists' (UPI)

MOGADISHU, Somalia, March 11 (UPI) -- The reported takeover of Somalia's al-Shebab Islamists by al-Qaida veteran Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, alleged mastermind of the 1988 U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa, could rally the divided jihadists as they brace for a U.S.-backed government offensive.