Situation Critical: The Anjouan Political Crisis, Chrysantus Ayangafac
Speaking at the AU Heads of State and Government summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in January 2008, Comoros’ President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi alleged that his government had lost faith in international efforts to mediate a resolution to the Anjouan crisis and vowed to take matters into his own hands (IRIN 2008a; Reuters 2008). He stated that the union government’s troops had been massing on the island of Mohéli ‘as a last step – because it’s closer – in the re-establishment of order by military force; it’s going to happen, it’s a matter of days’ (IRIN 2008b).
