Comoros

The UAE’s Extradition Machine: How African Warrants Are Testing Dubai’s Global Image

Summary: for years, Dubai was known as a place where fugitives could disappear behind the city’s wealth, skyscrapers and international connections. Increasingly, it is becoming the opposite: a place where foreign governments can have people arrested and sent home.

September 4, 2026

Exclusive: The Fight for the Comoros

Summary: in this exclusive interview, Said Hachim Achirafi outlines the Comorian government-in-exile’s strategy to dismantle President Azali Assoumani’s autocratic regime and restore democratic governance through diaspora mobilisation and international pressure. He further highlights the critical need for maritime reform to end the "shadow fleet" activities and opaque registry management that currently threaten the nation's sovereign credibility.

May 14, 2026

Amir of Kuwait – a “health setback”

Summary: Kuwaiti Amir taken ill, no details. Kuwait keeping out of regional disputes.

September 2, 2019

Amir of Kuwait – a “health setback”

Summary: Kuwaiti Amir taken ill, no details. Kuwait keeping out of regional disputes.

August 29, 2019

Bidoons

Summary: some quarter of a million Bidoons (residents without citizenship) in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE face discrimination. Moves for reform in Kuwait. Some given fictional Comorian nationality.

April 17, 2019

Arab League summit Tunis

Summary: annual Arab League summit the usual muddle, given some purpose by the need to badmouth US policy.

April 1, 2019

Comoros and its place in the Indian Ocean

Summary: small and poor, the Comoros are in a migration dispute with France, are involved in shady trade in passports for Kuwaiti residents and others, and side with Saudi Arabia and the UAE against Iran and Qatar (guess why!)

April 6, 2018

When survival is success: regional organisations in the Arab world

Summary: the Arab world’s oldest and most comprehensive regional organisation, the Arab League, has only very modest achievements to its name. Other, sub-regional, groupings have ceased to exist, become paralysed or are beset by internal strife. In these circumstances, simply to survive looks like success.

August 16, 2017

Nouakchott hosts Arab summit

Summary: the summit a flop. Most leaders were absent, those who attended mostly demandeurs.

July 26, 2016

Welcome to the Islands of the Moon

Summary: Stateless residents of Kuwait to be offered Comoros passports; a sticking plaster to cover a sore affecting 100,000 people.

May 17, 2016

Saudi-led alliance against terrorism

Summary: Muhammad bin Salman announces a new alliance of 34 states. Little detail.

December 15, 2015

Egypt: steadying

Summary: Little recent violence has been reported in Egypt. Standard & Poor’s has raised its sovereign credit rating for Egypt to B-/B from CCC+/C.

November 17, 2013