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Comoros (Vol 1, 2004)

in Africa Yearbook Online
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Rolf Hofmeier
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After years of political turmoil arising from the Anjouan secession of 1997 and a bloodless military coup in 1999, this small island state made considerable progress towards completing its transitional phase and setting up all the institutions of the new federal ‘Union des Comores’ (Comorian Union), whose foundations had been laid by a constitutional referendum in December 2001. Deep-seated conflicts between the key actors of the four distinct state entities about their respective competencies, and scepticism about the functionality of the highly complex and costly new government structures, however, persisted and were not fully resolved by year's end.

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