Ahmed Abdallah Sambi News

Moroni, Comoros - The president of Comoros asked France on Saturday to increase efforts to find the black boxes of an Airbus 310 that crashed on its way from Yemen to Comoros last month.

The president of Comoros has asked France to increase efforts to find the black boxes of an Airbus 310 that crashed on its way from Yemen to Comoros last month.

Paris - The Comoros president on Saturday called for calm in the aftermath of a plane crash that killed 152 people, as Yemenia cancelled all flights to the islands and thousands rallied in France.

Moroni - Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi said on Thursday that rescuers had yet to recover any bodies from the site of the Yemenia plane crash, and appealed for more international help.

A 14-year old girl is the only known survivor so far of the 153 people on the Airbus A310 from Sana'a, Yemen, which crashed at sea after missing its first attempt at landing in the Comoran capital, Moroni, in bad weather.

Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, who was to attend an African Union summit in Libya, offered his condolences to the victims ' families, nationalradio reported.

Deby promises to wipe out Sudan-backed rebels A MID escalating conflict between the neighbours, Chad's President Idriss Deby Itno has vowed to wipe out rebels he said Sudan backs after Khartoum accused his country of more air strikes on its territory.

JOHANNESBURG, 19 May 2009 - People in the Comoros have voted for a new constitution that will streamline the Indian Ocean island state's top-heavy government and extend the current president's tenure by a further 12 months.

Moroni - Voters in Comoros have approved prolonging President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi's term by one more year in a controversial referendum shunned by the opposition, provisional results show.

Comorans voted on Sunday on whether to streamline the archipelago's government in a referendum that opponents say seeks to extend President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi's rule and weaken federal leaders.