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ICRC Regional Delegation: Pretoria In 2000, the regional delegation covered comoros, Lesotho, Madagascar, gave each of the three comoros islands control of most of its internal affairs. http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList176/A1378A226A360E52C1256B660060
Extractions: In January, Anjouan confirmed its intention to secede â and hence to repudiate the April 1999 Antananarivo agreement which granted the island a large degree of autonomy [1] â in a referendum whose results were rejected by the federal authorities in Moroni. The authorities also imposed economic and financial sanctions on Anjouan, and the OAU threatened to do likewise if the islandâs leaders failed to sign the Antananarivo agreement promptly. Following a mission to the country in June, the OAU also urged the government of the Comoros, led by Colonel Assoumani (who had survived a coup The trials of police and military personnel accused of mutiny following the events of 1997 [2] and 1998 [3] continued into 2000. A total of 25 members of the police and three military personnel, all of whom were receiving ICRC visits, were tried and sentenced. The general elections originally scheduled for March, then for October, were further postponed until 2001, and this prolonged the political instability which had beset the country for several years.
Extractions: The ICRC carried out several missions to the Comoros in 1999 in order to assess the humanitarian situation and to hold talks with the civilian and military authorities and with officials of the National Society. During one of these missions, the ICRC was informed of the release of four detainees whom it had registered in December 1998. [34] The last of the Botswana and South African peacekeeping forces withdrew from Lesotho in late April and early May. These forces had been brought in under the aegis of the SADC in September 1998 in order to restore order in the country [35]. In addition, the past year also saw the continuing trial of members of the Lesotho armed forces charged with mutiny after the events of 1998.
MSN Encarta - Comoros According to a 2001 constitution, the three islands of comoros constitute a union . The history of the comoros archipelago has largely been determined by http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761566120_2/Comoros.html
Extractions: Search for books and more related to Comoros Facts and Figures Quick information and statistics for Comoros Encarta Search Search Encarta about Comoros Editors' Picks Great books about your topic, Comoros ... Click here Advertisement document.write(' Page 2 of 2 Encyclopedia Article Multimedia 8 items Dynamic Map Map of Comoros Article Outline Introduction Land and Resources The People of Comoros Economy ... History V Print Preview of Section According to a 2001 constitution, the three islands of Comoros constitute a union. Each island elects its own legislature and president, which are responsible for establishing and enforcing its own fundamental laws in accordance with the national constitution. On the national level, legislative power is vested in the Assembly of the Union, whose 30 members serve five-year terms. Half of the members are selected by the individual islandsâ legislatures (each island selects five members), and the other half are popularly elected. The head of state is a president, who is popularly elected to a four-year term. The presidency rotates among the three islands. Two vice presidents, representing the other two islands, assist the president. Judicial power resides with the Supreme Court, which rules on fiscal and administrative issues, and the High Council, which considers constitutional matters.
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Extractions: Feedback Comoros, the , officially Union of the Comoros (1996 est. pop. 540,000), 838 sq mi (2,170 sq km), occupying most of the Comoro Islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel, between Madagascar and Mozambique. The capital and largest city is Moroni Moroni , town (1990 pop. 23,432), capital of Comoros, on Njazidja (formerly Grande Comore) island, at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel, an arm of the Indian Ocean. Click the link for more information. The indigenous people are a mix of African, Arab, and Asian (mostly Indian and Malay) descent. Islam is the state religion (with Sunni predominating), and there is a sizable Roman Catholic minority. Arabic, French, and Comorian (a blend of Swahili and Arabic) are all official languages. With few natural resources, poor soil, and overpopulation, the islands are one of the world's poorest nations. Some 80% of the people are involved in agriculture. Vanilla, cloves, ylang-ylang (used in perfumes), and copra are the major exports; cassava and bananas are also grown. Rice and other foodstuffs, cement, petroleum products, transport vehicles, and consumer goods are imported. The country is heavily dependent on France for trade and foreign aid. The Comoros is a member of the Franc Zone.
Lionel Hurst 50th Session Uited Nations Gebral Assembly The recent invasion of the comoros islands by a mercenary band which took its You have recently pronounced on the success of interlocking, regional http://www.un.int/antigua/speech/lahga50.htm
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Comoros - Early Visitors And Settlers comoros Table of Contents A watershed in the history of the islands was thearrival of the Shirazi Arabs in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. http://countrystudies.us/comoros/2.htm
Extractions: Early Visitors and Settlers Comoros Table of Contents The first Europeans to visit the islands were the Portuguese, who landed on Njazidja around 1505. The islands first appear on a European map in 1527, that of Portuguese cartographer Diogo Roberos. Dutch sixteenth-century accounts describe the Comoros sultanates as prosperous trade centers with the African coast and Madagascar. Intense competition for this trade, and, increasingly, for European commerce, resulted in constant warfare among the sultanates, a situation that persisted until the French occupation. The sultans of Njazidja only occasionally recognized the supremacy of one of their number as tibe , or supreme ruler. By the early seventeenth century, slaves had become Comoros' most important export commodity, although the market for the islands' other products also continued to expand, mainly in response to the growing European presence in the region. To meet this increased demand, the sultans began using slave labor themselves, following common practice along the East African coast. Beginning in 1785, the Sakalava of the west coast of Madagascar began slaving raids on Comoros. They captured thousands of inhabitants and carried them off in outrigger canoes to be sold in French-occupied Madagascar, Mauritius, or Reunion to work on the sugar plantations, many of which French investors owned. The island of Mahoré, closest of the group to Madagascar, was virtually depopulated. Comoran pleas for aid from the French and the other European powers went unanswered, and the raids ceased only after the Sakalava kingdoms were conquered by the Merina of Madagascar's central highlands. After the Merina conquest, groups of Sakalava and Betsimisaraka peoples left Madagascar and settled on Mahoré and Mwali.
Extractions: Phone: (+20 - 2) 259-9494; 257-1740 Directory of National Episcopal Conferences in Africa and Madagascar Association of Episcopal Conferences of Anglophone West Africa (AECAWA), inaugurated at Ibadan, Nigeria in 1977, is made up of the Inter-Territorial Catholic Bishops' Conference (ITCABIC) comprising The Gambia, and Sierra Leone, the Ghana Catholic Bishops' Conference (GCBC), the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Liberia (CABICOL) and the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria (CBCN).
Regions South Asia - IIAS Newsletter Online The session on the Settlement history of the islands discussed the formative Genuine regional economic cooperation started only after 1990, http://www.iias.nl/iiasn/18/regions/i1.html
Extractions: Globalization and the South West Indian Ocean: Four hundred years ago the Dutch under the command of Admiral Wybrandt van Warwijck landed on the island of Mauritius. He named the island Mauritius after Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau. To commemorate this event, the International Institute for Asian Studies and the University of Mauritius organized a seminar on globalization in the South-West Indian Ocean. The event was funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and given a historical continuity by the visit of the present-day Prince Maurits and Princess Marilène of Orange-Nassau-Van Vollenhoven. A series of socio-cultural events to mark the celebrations were the fruits of a joint effort by the governments of the Netherlands and Mauritius. The international seminar was multidisciplinary in approach, participants coming from The Netherlands, Britain, France, Italy, India, South Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion and other countries. In his opening speech Prof. Mohamedbha, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mauritius, welcomed the guests of honour, Prince Maurice and Princess Marilène. Prof. Stokhof, Director of the IIAS, elaborated on the scope of the theme of the Seminar by emphasizing the 'globalization process' of academic exchange. The inaugural address was delivered by Drs P Moree (Royal Dutch Library, The Hague). His specially written book A Concise History of Dutch in Mauritius (1598-1710) was launched, as well as two books on Dodology published by the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius.
Information Bahrain, the comoros islands, Dijibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, At the regional and national models, held in the spring semester, http://fsweb.berry.edu/academic/hass/ajohnson/information/
Extractions: MAL Information The Arab League and Model Arab League: The Model Arab League is based upon the Arab League, formally the League of Arab States, a regional cooperative organization. Chartered in 1945, the League has among its aims the strengthening and consolidation of ties between Arab states, coordination of political programs, preservation of state sovereignty, joint action on Palestinian affairs, conflict prevention and resolution, and cooperation on matters of health, education, and social and cultural issues. The League is headquartered in Cairo, Egypt. Currently, there are 22 members of the League: Algeria, Bahrain, the Comoros Islands, Dijibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. It also has one observer state, Eritrea. Headquarters of the Arab League, Midan al-Tahrir, Cairo, Egypt Photo Taken by E.S. Haynes, Nov. 1995 The Model Arab League program exists at both the college and the high school level. Georgia is one of the few states that has programs at both levels. The program is sponsored by the National Council on US-Arab Relations (NCUSAR), a non-profit organization that has charity status and receives no funding from the US government. The NCUSAR is a "non-profit, non-governmental educational organization dedicated to improving the American knowledge and understanding of the Arab world." (
Extractions: Chapter 1 Althabe, Gérard. "Les manifestations paysannes d'avril 1971," Revue française d'études politiques africaines [Dakar, Senegal], 78, June 1972, 70-77. Andriamirado, Sennen. Madagascar aujourd'hui . Paris: Éditions J.A., 1978. Andriamparany, L.M., J. Ratsimandrava, and J.F. Giovannetti. "Setting Up a Bibliographic Data-Base from National Inventory of Scientific and Technical LiteratureThe Cidst Experience in Madagascar," International Library Review , 23, No. 4, 1991, 345-56. Anizon, A. Production de l'habitat à Antananarivo . Paris: Harmattan, 1988. Archer, Robert. Madagascar depuis 1972: La marche d'une révolution . Paris: Harmattan, 1976. Attenborough, David. Journeys to the Past: Travels in New Guinea, Madagascar, and the Northern Territory of Australia . Guildford, United Kingdom: Lutterworth Press, 1981. "L'attitude des églises malgaches face à la situation politique," Revue française d'études politiques africaines [Dakar, Senegal], 72, December 1971, 85-89. Baré, J.F.
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CIA - The World Factbook Island, Clipperton Island, Cocos (Keeling) islands, Colombia, comoros Several regional maps have also been updated to reflect boundary changes and http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
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