The Comorian monthly Kashkazi was missing from newsstands in January due to financial reasons. It will be back again in Feburary, but remains threatened by closure in a near future.
"After twenty-odd years of existence, the Comorian press is still in its infancy." This remark by Ahmed Ali Amir, journalist with the state-owned weekly Al Watwan, neatly sums up the newspaper situation in the Comoros Archipelago which has approximately 700 000 inhabitants. There are never more than four titles available from Comoran newsstands and the independent publications are not published regularly due to financial constraints.