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Ahmed Abdallah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane (Arabic: أحمد عبد الله عبد الرحمن‎, Ahmad Abd Allah Abd ar-Rahman) (June 12, 1919 – November 26, 1989) was a leader in the Comoros. Abdallah was born in Domoni, on the island of Anjouan. Abdallah was the chairman of the chamber of deputies during 1970. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ahmed_Abdallah   (310 words)

Comoros & Mayotte Travel Information | Lonely Planet Destination Guide The first president of Comoros, Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane, lasted a political nanosecond before being ousted in a coup by Ali Solih, an atheist with an Islamic background. Solih was shot while allegedly 'trying to escape', Abdallah returned to the fold, the mercenaries were given key positions in the ministry, and there was a genuine attempt to clean up the ruins left by Solih's reign. The last one ended with the assassination of Abdallah by his bodyguards, and there were whispers of 'scorpions following their nature', with Dénard's involvement in the plot being far from clear. www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/africa/comoros-and-mayotte?v=print   (1964 words)

III. Introduction The sixteenth in the series of lectures at regular Conference sessions in memory of Frank Lidgett McDougall, a founding father of the Organization, was delivered by His Excellency Giorgio Ruffolo, Minister for the Environment of the Republic of Italy. The Representative of Lebanon thanked the Conference for its many expressions of sorrow in this especially trying moment for his country, and noted that the hope for peace in Lebanon would override this treacherous and criminal act. The Conference observed a minute of silence in memory of His Excellency Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane, President of the Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros, who had died on 26 November 1989. www.fao.org /docrep/x5588E/x5588e03.htm   (695 words)

Coup-prone Comoros holds peaceful vote - Boston.com Supporters of Comoran presidential candidate Abderemane Ibrahim Halidi on a van cheer during a campaign in Moroni, Comoros, Friday, May 12, 2006. Businessman and Muslim cleric Ahmed Abdallah Sambi was widely considered the front-runner against two secular candidates, retired French air force officer Mohamed Djaafari and longtime politician Ibrahim Halidi. All three pledged to fight corruption, improve the quality of life for the poor, create new jobs and end years of mismanagement in Comoros, which gained independence from France in 1975. www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2006/05/14/coup_prone_comoros_holds_peaceful_vote   (389 words)

Display Detail Information President Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane of the Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros makes a state visit to our country April 1-9, 1987 at the invitation of President Chun Do-Hwan. The Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros, located between the Continent of Africa and the island of Madagascar, consists of the four islands Grande Comore, Moheli, Anjouan and Mayotte. The Ministry of Communications issues this postage stamp in commemoration of President Ahmed abdallah Abdermane's state visit to Korea and also as a token of the hearty welcome our nation extends to him. www.pennfamily.org /KSS-USA/870406-1487.htm   (208 words)

Comorans prepare to vote   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) All three candidates, whittled down from a slate of 13 in last month's primaries, are from Anjouan, which under the rotating presidency set by a 2001 power-sharing constitution must next hold the top job in the volatile nation. The favourite is 48-year-old Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, an Islamist businessman known as "the Ayatollah" whose likely victory has sparked fears of religious extremism on the overwhelmingly moderate Muslim islands. Final returns should be announced not later than 72 hours after the voting has ended under the electoral law although this deadline was not adhered to during the preliminaries. www.sundaytimes.co.za /zones/sundaytimesNEW/basket6st/basket6st1147441506.aspx   (566 words)

BakuTODAY.net - Islamist candidate claims victory in Comoros poll as rivals cry fraud The front-runner in weekend presidential elections in the Comoros claimed victory as his rivals cried foul, alleging vote-rigging. Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, 48, expressed confidence that unofficial results reported by his representatives would be confirmed, giving him a clear victory to succeed outgoing President Assoumani Azali. The CNEC is to hand over the provisional results to the minister in charge of elections, Ali Abdallah, who will formally announce them, but the returns will not be final until the Constitutional Court certifies them. www.bakutoday.net /view.php?d=20909   (802 words)

BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Q&A: Comoros elections Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, an Islamic preacher and former MP; he owns a radio and television station in Anjouan which he is using to support his candidacy. Abderemane Ibrahim Halidi, a former prime minister and teacher from the deprived region of Nioumakele in Anjouan; he is being supported by the incumbent president and his party, the Convention for the Restoration of Comoros. On 16 April, some 120,000 eligible voters from a population of 270,000 on Anjouan will cast their ballots at 222 polling stations. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/4909228.stm   (699 words)

UN Commission on Human Rights Thematic Reports - Use of Mercenaries - Special Rapporteur's Report (Jan 96) Because of the sentence he was serving, Denard was not supposed to leave France, where charges were also pending against him for the assassination of the President of the Comoros, Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane, on 26 November 1989. In chapter VIII of the same report entitled "Situation in the Comoros", paragraphs 128 to 132 described in detail the mercenary attack on that country in November 1989, the assassination of President Abdallah and the responsibility of the mercenary Bob Denard for acts affecting the self­determination and human rights of the people of the Comoros. Denard was also under investigation in France for the assassination of President Ahmed Abdallah at the time of the 1989 coup in the Comoros. www.fas.org /irp/world/para/docs/e-cn4-1996-27.htm   (10456 words)

Comoros: Angus Reid Consultants On Apr. 16, Anjouan voters elected religious leader Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, former officer in the French air force Mohamed Djaanfari, and former prime minister Halidi Abderemane Ibrahim as the three Comorian presidential candidates. Sambi received 23.7 per cent of all cast ballots, followed by Djaanfari with 13.1 per cent, and Halidi with 10.4 per cent. Initial reports suggested that Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi would win the election with more than 60 per cent of all cast ballots. www.angus-reid.com /tracker/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/10971   (648 words)

BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Q&A: Comoros elections Three candidates remain from the 13 contenders who stood in last month's first round of voting. Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, an Islamic preacher and former MP, popularly known as "the Ayatollah"; he is also a founding member of the Islamic National Front for Justice party. Abderemane Ibrahim Halidi, a former prime minister and teacher from the deprived region of Nioumakele in Anjouan; he is being supported by the incumbent president and his party, the Convention for the Restoration of Comoros but is a member of the Movement for the Comoros Party (MPC). news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/africa/4764689.stm   (735 words)

Panapress Official Website Moroni, Comoros (PANA) - The island state of the Comoros have a new union president, Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, who was sworn-in on Friday at the Beit Salam presidential palace in Moroni in the presence of the African Union (AU) Vice-Chairperson Patrick Mazimhaka. Moroni, Comoros (PANA) - The Comoran Constitutional Court has issued the official results of the primary elections in Anjouan, declaring Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, Mohamed Djaanfari and Abdérémane Halidi Ibrahim winners of the polls. Moroni, Comoros (PANA) – Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, Halidi Abdérémane Ibrahim and Mohamed Djanfari, who won the primary elections held Sunday in Anjouan, Comoros, will shortly commence campaigning for presidential elections scheduled 14 May. 17/04/2006 full text... www.panapress.com /paysindexlat.asp?code=eng011   (672 words)

SABCnews.com - africa/east_africa About 117 000 voters from Anjouan island narrowed 14 candidates to three on Sunday, with Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, the popular Islamic leader and former MP, taking the lead with 17% of the vote, according to unofficial results. Oukacha El-Amdjade, the national electoral commission member, said the other two hopefuls were Mohammed Janfari, the national assembly vice-president and Abderemane Ibrahim Halidi, a teacher, from a deprived area seen as the candidate of the poor. Some polling stations had to be closed and their votes discounted after observers noted voting irregularities. www.sabcnews.com /africa/east_africa/0,2172,125850,00.html   (344 words)

Comoros 3 Oct 1978 - 26 Nov 1989 Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane (s.a.) UCP 26 Dec 1972 - 6 Jul 1975 Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane (s.a.) UDC 24 Sep 2001 - 25 Sep 2001 Ahmed Aboubacar Foundi www.worldstatesmen.org /Comoros.html   (1634 words)

Dépèches de IRIN l'agence de presse de l'ONU Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, popularly known as 'Ayatollah', won 23.7 percent of the votes, according to a spokesperson for the African Union Mission for Support to the Elections in the Comoros (AMISEC). Mohamed Djaanfari, a former officer in the French military, now local transport tycoon and vice-president of the national assembly, came second with 13.1 percent, followed by Halidi Abderemane Ibrahim, seen as the preferred candidate of the outgoing federal administration, with 10.37 percent. Aimed at breaking the cycle of coups and political strife that have characterised the political landscape of the three islands Union since they won independence from France in 1975, the elections are seen as Comoros' first real test of democracy. www.comores-online.com /mwezinet/presse/irin.htm   (14087 words)

Journal of Mathematical Physics 3045--3056 Nour Eddine Askour and Ahmed Intissar and Zouha\"\ir Mouayn Explicit formulas for reproducing kernels of generalized Bargmann spaces on $C^n$. Naoufel Ben Abdallah On a multidimensional Schrödinger--Poisson scattering model for semiconductors. 7079--7098 Abderemane Morame The absolute continuity of the spectrum of Maxwell operator in a periodic media 7099--7108 Dennis R. Morgan A remarkable sequence derived from Euler products. www.math.utah.edu /pub/tex/bib/toc/jmathphys2000.html   (6584 words)

AIM News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) The authorities detained Captain Abderemane Ahmed Abdallah, son of founding president Ahmed Abdallah, the officials said. The other son, former agriculture minister Mahamoud Ahmed Abdallah was arrested on Tuesday. The government said the Frenchman, 49-year-old Daniel Clerino who lives on the nearby French-ruled island of Reunion, had already confessed to involvement in the putsch. www.aim.ac.yu /cgi-bin/news.pl?id=499   (3667 words)

Country Profile Comoros - EIU Online Store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) France eventually agreed to hold a referendum on independence, but the vote in December 1974 produced a split result: the combined vote of Grande Comore, Anjouan and Moheli was 96% in favour of independence, but in Mayotte 64% of the votes were against it. The boycott of national independence day celebrations by Mr Elbak and Major Mohamed Bacar, who was elected as federal president of Anjouan, underlines the difficulties Colonel Assoumane will continue to face in attempting to balance the demands of the different islands and regions. On Anjouan, the administration of Colonel Abderemane is overthrown and power is assumed by a military ruling council, headed by Major Mohamed Bacar, which survives three counter-coups in the following three months. store.eiu.com /index.asp?layout=show_sample&product_id=30000203&country_id=KM   (11352 words)

People's Daily Online -- Roundup: Comorans vote in hope of better life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) Comorans went to the polls on Sunday to choose between three candidates, including frontrunner Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, who finished first in the primaries last month, hoping the winner will improve the economy of the coup-plagued Indian Ocean archipelago. Moheli, the smallest island of the Union of Comoros, is due to take presidency in 2010. The primary election was held on April 16, when 117,000 Anjouanese from a population of 250,000 narrowed down 14 candidates to three, namely popular Islamic leader and former parliamentarian Sambi, National Assembly Vice President Mohamed Djanfari and former prime minister Abderemane Ibrahim Halidi. english.peopledaily.com.cn /200605/15/print20060515_265668.html   (543 words)

Comoros' presidential frontrunner wishes stronger ties with China Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, who took a lead in Comoros' primary presidential election, said here Sunday that he would promote relations between China andthe Indian Ocean archipelago if he could come to power. He was followed by National Assembly Vice President Mohamed Djanfari and former prime minister Abderemane Ibrahim Halidi, who gained 13 percent and 10 percent of the votes respectively. Comorans agreed in 2001, following an elaborate reconciliation,to share power between a national government and the trio of islands -- Grande-Comore, Anjouan and Moheli. en-1.ce.cn /World/Africa/200605/15/t20060515_6964306.shtml   (197 words)

JS Online:Violence stifles the Comoros' allure Groves of bushes bearing the small white flowers that will dry into fl clove buds, ylang-ylang trees and meandering vines hung with vanilla beans lined the road, so narrow and winding that the driver had to honk at every bend. Domoni is the republic's most picturesque town and site of the brilliant white mausoleum of Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane, the founding father of the republic who was assassinated by his guards in a 1989 coup. If you're lucky, you might see men and boys parade through the streets at night doing a dance called "garassissi" that is performed only in Domoni. www.jsonline.com /dd/destnat/jan02/16268.asp   (876 words)

Iran Daily - World Politics - 05/16/06 MORONI, Comoros, May 15--Supporters of Islamist candidate Ahmed Abdallah Sambi claimed victory Monday in the coup-plagued Comoros’ weekend presidential elections but rivals cried foul, alleging the polls had been marred by fraud, AFP reported. LONDON, May 15--Former Pakistani prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif have agreed on a “charter of democracy“ and pledged to return from exile to challenge President Pervez Musharraf in elections due next year. MOGADISHU--Tension gripped the lawless Somali capital on Monday amid fears of renewed fighting between Islamic militia and gunmen loyal to a US-backed warlord alliance despite a truce brokered by elders. www.iran-daily.com /1385/2563/html/politic.htm   (1514 words)

NEWS - INTERNATIONAL - AFRICAN - Comcast.net Supporters of Comoran presidential candidate Abderemane Ibrahim Halidi on a van cheer during a campaign in Moroni,... Politicians from the three biggest islands _ Grande Comore, Anjouan and Moheli _ take turns in holding four-year presidential terms. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. www.comcast.net /news/international/africa/index.jsp?cat=AFRICA&fn=/2006/05/14/391662.html   (353 words)

Xinhua - English MORONI, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Former parliamentarian Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi was the winner of the Comoran presidential elections, announced the Indian Ocean island nation's National Electoral Commission here Tuesday. The rival former prime minister Abderemane Ibrahim Halidi and National Assembly vice-president Mohamed Djanfari received 28.11 percent and 13.72 percent of the votes respectively. The result needs to be validated by the Constitutional Court to be legally effective. news.xinhuanet.com /english/2006-05/16/content_4554329.htm   (472 words)

Comoros' Presidential Frontrunner Wishes Stronger Ties with China Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, who took a lead in Comoros' primary presidential election, said on Sunday that he would promote relations between China and the Indian Ocean archipelago if he could come to power. He was casting ballot in a voting station on the Anjouan island. Comorans agreed in 2001, following an elaborate reconciliation, to share power between a national government and the trio of islands -- Grande-Comore, Anjouan and Moheli. en.chinabroadcast.cn /811/2006/05/14/48@88783.htm   (381 words)

The Rest of Africa - COMOROS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) However, other islands like Mwali and Nzwani voted to remain under French control. The islands’ first president, Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane was removed from government by foreign mercenaries and three years later he returned to power by force. The islands have struggled to maintain political stability and economic stability in the face of fluctuating cash crop prices and environmental disasters that impeded development. home.intekom.com /southafricanhistoryonline/pages/town&c/africa/comoros.htm   (241 words)

Islamist claims victory in Comoros poll, rivals cry fraud Islamist claims victory in Comoros poll, rivals cry fraud Comorian presidential candidate Ahmed Abdallah Sambi addresses his supporters during his last political rally in Moroni, on May 11. Supporters of Islamist candidate Ahmed Abdallah Sambi claimed victory in the coup-plagued Comoros' weekend presidential elections but rivals cried foul, alleging the polls had been marred by fraud. archive.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=123672   (753 words)

New Scientist Premium- Interview: Water, water everywhere - Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) Tell me about being an environmental adviser to the president of the Comoros islands; and how did you get shot at? The president, Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane, gave me his chauffeur-driven car to go to the remote villages, and I was the first white person the villagers had ever seen. My task was to find a long-lost bat. www.newscientist.com /channel/opinion/mg18725071.500.html   (296 words)

Country Information - 039   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) Moroni, Comoros (PANA) — Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, Hal idi Abdérémane Ibrahim and Mohamed Djanfari, who won the primary elections held Independent candidate Abdallah Sambi won with a comfortable aol.countrywatch.com /@school/as_wire.asp?vCOUNTRY=039&UID=2089289   (148 words)

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