Comoros news, front pages compared
Crosswire tracks 4 major Comoros news outlets. Preview their homepages side by side below — switch between two, three and four columns, go compact, or translate every page into your language.
The Comoros media landscape on Crosswire
Crosswire lays the Comoros' front pages next to one another so you can see which stories lead where, how headlines are framed, and what one outlet foregrounds that another leaves out. All 4 titles tracked in the Comoros sit near the editorial centre in our classification, which is common where the press is dominated by public broadcasters and agencies, or where no confident left/right rating was available. Comparison here is less about political line than about which stories each newsroom judges worth the top of the page.
By kind of outlet, the 4 titles break down as 2 digital-native outlets (Comores Infos and HabarizaComores) and 2 daily newspapers (Al-Watwan and La Gazette des Comores). Crosswire lists no public-service broadcaster for the Comoros, so the fixed point in a comparison has to be a wire service or the most widely read daily instead.
The Comoros sits in East Africa, on Crosswire's Africa hub. By outlets tracked it is 8th of the 13 countries in East Africa and 17th of the 45 across Africa, where the average is 4 outlets per country. Its neighbours in East Africa with hubs of their own are Kenya (5), Ethiopia (5), Tanzania (5), Uganda (5), Rwanda (4), Somalia (4), South Sudan (4), Djibouti (3), Sudan (3), Mauritius (3), Seychelles (3) and Madagascar (2).
Leaning groupings are approximate guides drawn from widely cited media-bias assessments — see the methodology and what the labels can and can't tell you. Counts are taken from the directory as of .
Which are the Comoros' main news outlets?
Across the Comoros' editorial spectrum, Crosswire currently lists near the center, Al-Watwan, La Gazette des Comores, Comores Infos and HabarizaComores. Each outlet below links to a full profile — its facts, editorial leaning and a live front-page preview — and the comparison view above shows any of them side by side.
The Comoros' main newspaper, state-owned and published in Moroni since 1985, now appearing as a French-language daily with some Arabic content. As the national title of record it covers government, politics across the three islands, the economy, religion and society; its website is one of the few consistently updated domestic news sources.
Independent French-language newspaper published in Moroni, among the longest-established private titles in the Comoros. Publishing in print and through a companion website, it covers national politics, inter-island affairs, the economy and society, and provides one of the country's few professional counterweights to the state-owned press in a small media market.
Online news site presenting itself as the first digital information source on the Comoros, publishing in French for readers on the islands and in the large Comorian diaspora, notably in France. Updated continuously with politics, society, sport and culture, it ranks among the most-visited Comorian news websites and relays debate between home and diaspora communities.
French-language news site covering the Comoros and its diaspora, with a strong orientation toward the large Comorian community in France. Reporting daily on politics, society and culture across the archipelago and on diaspora affairs, it counts several hundred thousand monthly page views, a plurality of them from metropolitan France, making it a bridge between home and overseas readers.
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