African Studies
Utafiti: Journal of African Perspectives
Call for Papers: Utafiti is inviting you to submit your manuscript – any topic in the humanities - for consideration in the next issues.
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A military invasion, with assistance from the AU, toppled the illegal leadership of Anjouan island and political life returned to normalcy after new elections for the island presidency. The delicate politico-institutional set-up of the ‘Union des Comores’ remained, however, tense, with renewed quarrelling over the respective competencies of the Union authorities and the leaders of the three semi-autonomous islands and with attempts by President Sambi to bring about changes to the complex federal constitution. Mistrust among leading political figures thus remained high. There was no noticeable improvement in social conditions for the majority of the population and the general economic performance remained very poor.