Comoros (Vol 16, 2019)
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President Azali Assoumani consolidated his hold on power by winning a snap presidential election in March. Opposition candidates denounced the authoritarian and restrictive conditions under which the campaign took place. Citing irregularities, an international observer mission declined to validate the conduct of the election. The opposition established a National Transition Council in an effort to have the election nullified. Its first president, Colonel Soilihi Mohamed was arrested and then co-opted. However, with his presidency widely recognised by the international community, Assoumani ignored the Council’s demands that he step down. In April, the islands were hit by Cyclone Kenneth, which caused widespread damage to infrastructure and devastated much of the agricultural sector. The imf coordinated an international relief and rebuilding effort. The World Bank recategorised Comoros as a ‘middle income country’ from its previous categorisation as a ‘least developed country’. At the end of the year, a conference of international investors, hosted by the French government and designed to finance the Emerging Comoros Plan, resulted in pledges of investment amounting to $ 4.3 bn.
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Comoros (Vol 16, 2019)
in Africa Yearbook OnlineSearch for other papers by Simon Massey in
Current site
Google Scholar
(3,258 words)