Comoros: for Its Economic Forum, the Indian Ocean Seeks to Strengthen Still Limited Trade

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In the Indian Ocean, economies remain weakly connected to each other, with less than 3 per cent of trade occurring within the region, despite close markets and similar needs. Since Monday, 27 April, in Moroni, the capital of the Comoros, for the Economic Forum of the Indian Ocean Islands, public officials and private actors have the same ambition: to strengthen regional integration, but between regulatory barriers and lack of connectivity, the c…

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Meeting in early March in Réunion and Mauritius, and then in early April in Madagascar, researchers, economic stakeholders, and institutional representatives from the western Indian Ocean region embarked on a collaborative effort to strengthen trade between the islands. These meetings, organized following a study conducted between September 2025 and January 2026 by the consulting firm EY with the support of the French Development Agency (AFD), a…