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...PNTL police posts within the Comoro district of the city's west, poorly equipped officers paid $125 a month live in tents without mosquito nets or proper toilets. At one post the single radio shared by eight men is broken, forcing them to call in reports on their personal mobile phones. At another post, responsible for a 4-sq.-km district, officers have no patrol vehicles and sprint to jobs on foot. "The U.N. is providing everything," says one UNPOL officer. "Even the toilet paper...
...Comoro Islands off the East coast of Africa are noted for their exquisite beaches, their turtle migration, and their violence. Since gaining independence from France in 1975, the tiny three-island archipelago with a population of 710,000 has suffered 19 coups or attempted coups, while also producing Africa's most wanted terrorist, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed - accused of masterminding the killing of 224 people as leader of the Somalia-based al-Qaeda allied group that bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. It might seem appropriate, then, at first glance, that the African Union on Tuesday responded with...
DIED. MOHAMED AMIN, 53, acclaimed Kenyan photographer whose images of the 1984 famine in Ethiopia shocked the world into providing help; in the crash of hijacked Ethiopian Airlines flight 961; off the Comoro Islands. Among the others killed: Brian Tetley, 61, a colleague who often wrote the text for Amin's photo books...
Lemurs, which are found only in Madagascar and the nearby Comoro Islands, are of great interest because they are thought to resemble the common ancestor of man, monkeys and apes that lived 50 million years ago. Meier, who helped discover two other types of lemur, made his latest find with the aid of a stray dog, who located the tree hole where the nocturnal animal was sleeping. Although five specimens were preserved for museums between 1875 and 1965, scientists knew little about them. Meier found that they are about 14 cm (5.5 in.) long, with a slightly longer furry tail...
...mercenary standards, Robert Denard's was an illustrious career. The French soldier of fortune waged war throughout three decades in such places as the old Congo, Angola and Benin and had a hand in the overthrow of three governments in the Comoro Islands. But Denard may have finally pushed fortune too far. Involved in the assassination of Comoro President Ahmed Abdallah, Denard and his mercenary minions were running the country until late last week, when French troops called in by the Comoro interim President hastened his departure...