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| Award of Excellence | | 5-3. An Anjouanese man | | Jose Cendon (Spain) AFP | |
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Comoran and Tanzanian African Union soldiers arrest a man suspected of
collaborating with renegade Anjouan leader Mohamed Bacar in Mutsamudu, the
Anjouan capital, on 25 Ma
rch 2008. The Comoran army said it had located the
renegade leader of the isle of Anjouan, Mohamed Bacar, during the operation it
launched earlier March 25, 2008 with the African Union to oust him. Some 400 AND
troops backed by around 1,000 soldiers from Sudan and Tanzania launched a
offensive before dawn to wrest back control of the isle of Anjouan from Bacar,
its self-proclaimed leader, and capture him. | |
