The Comoros' federal president, Ahmed Sambi, disputes the result and says that Mr Bacar is a thug.
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The Comoros are not unique in having such an odd relationship with France.
He visits neglected outposts of the system, such as Madagascar and the Comoros.
Mr Mohammed was born in the Comoros islands in the early 1970s.
In 1975, the Comoros Islands parliament declared unilateral independence from French rule.
Visitors to his beach house in the Comoros might find him, surrounded by his children from seven different pretty women, sipping tea under a frangipani tree.
In 1995, a little-known officer backed by mercenaries led by French soldier of fortune Bob Denard took power in the Comoros after poorly-equipped government troops were defeated.
The only real difference in the two stories, besides the relative insignificance of the Comoros, is that the French decided the deposed Comoran president, Mr. Siad Mohamed Djohar, was too unpopular.
Troops loyal to the Comoros' president have already clashed with supporters of the renegade leader of Anjouan, Mohamed Bacar, who took power last July after winning an election that the president declared illegal.
He is thought to have headed home to the Comoros islands in the Indian Ocean immediately after the attacks, but as FBI agents tried to trace him there, he boarded a plane to the Gulf and disappeared without trace.
In contrast, the Union of Comoros has fared pathetically, with a score of coups or attempted coups since independence.
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The latest tremors in Comoros had less to do with Mr Taki's rule than with Mayotte, the fourth island in the archipelago, which in 1975 had voted to remain a French colony.
Among those believed by the U.S. government to be responsible for the embassy bombings was Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a native of the Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros who had moved to Kenya in the mid-1990s and married a local woman.
The World Bank defines piracy-affected countries as Comoros, Djibouti, Kenya, Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, the Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania, as well as Yemen, Pakistan and the countries of the Persian Gulf.
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On the sidelines of the Summit, the Director-General met with several heads of state, including of Burkina Faso, Comoros, Mozambique and South Africa.
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