Comoros
Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros
République Fédérale Islamique des Comores;
Jumhuriyat al-Qumur al-Ittihadiyah al-Islamiyah
CAPITAL: Moroni
FLAG: Four equal horizon...
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Comoros - Assoumani Azali
Assoumani AzaliPresident
(pronounced "ah-zah-LEE ah-soo-MAH-nee")
"I have seized power to save the Comoros from falling into chaos and anarchy.�...
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Comoros
POPULATION 614,382SUNNI MUSLIM 98 percentCHRISTIAN 2 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
The Union of Comoros is a group of three islands—Njazidja (also called Grande Comore), Nz...
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Comoros
The Union of Comoros is a group of three islands located off the west coast of Africa northeast of Madagascar. The islands are mountainous and of volcanic origin. The total land mass of the ar...
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Area: 1,862 sq km (719 sq mi), excluding the 374-sq-km (144-sq-mi) island of Mayotte, a de facto dependency of
France
since 1976Population (2006 est.): 632,000 (excluding 188,000 on Mayotte)Capit...
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - The rebel leader of an island in the
Comoros said Tuesday he was ready to re-run a disputed election
and for talks to end an African Union sea blockade. Col. Mohamed Bacar, pre...
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Bob Denard, a mercenary who staged coups, battled communism and fought for French interests and his own across Africa for more than three decades, has died, his sister said Sunday. He was 78.Denard...
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New York (dpa) - An international convention banning acts of
nuclear terrorism will enter into force next month after it is
expected to be ratified by 22 of the 115 countrie...
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Dili (dpa) - International observers arriving in East Timor
Saturday for next week's presidential elections urged the eight
candidates to abide by the verdict of the half mi...
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YAOUNDE, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Cameroon's parliament has
authorised the president to sign an interim trade deal with the
European Union, joining a growing number of poor nations inking
11th-hour acco...
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Vernon BellecourtMINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Vernon Bellecourt, who fought the use of Indian nicknames for sports teams as a longtime leader of the American Indian Movement, has died. He was 75.Bellec...
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Fishermen have caught a rare and endangered fish, the coelacanth, off the coast of the Indian Ocean archipelago of Zanzibar, a researcher said on Monday.The find makes Zanzibar the third place in T...
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Somali pirates seized a cargo ship off the east African coast — one in a series of high-seas attacks in the last week alone, officials said Monday.Gunmen hijacked the ship last Wednesday, sai...
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Oct 19 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events to
have occurred on Oct. 26 since 1900: 1905 - Revolutionary Russian workers in St. Petersburg
formed the first Soviet, or workers' assemb...
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