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| Award of Excellence | | 5-4. An Anjouanese man | | Jose Cendon (Spain) AFP | |
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A Tanzanian African Union soldier hits a man suspected of collaborating with
renegade Anjouan leader Mohamed Bacar in Mutsamudu, the Anjouan capital, on 25
March 2008. Th
e 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. | |
