Comoros is a Federal Republic of Southern Africa located north of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean, between Madagascar and the eastern coast of Africa. The country is made up of three islands that are three federated states: Grande Comore, which houses Moroni, the capital of the country, Anjouan, whose capital is Matsoumoudou, and Mohéli, whose capital is Fomboni.
The leaders of the Union of the Comoros, who share power between the different islands, are sinking daily in endless quarrels over their own fields of competence. The conflicts that this entails, sometimes armed (dozens of coups since the independence of 1975!), are devastating for the economy and civil society in general. Poverty is extreme and everywhere in the islands, to the point that many young people see their future only in emigration, often at the risk of their lives, to Mayotte and France, former colonizing country.
Moutsamoudou, Anjouan, Comoros. Photo: David Stanley, Wikipedia
