Agreement was reached with France in 1973 for Comoros to become independent in 1978.

When in 1981 François Mitterrand was elected president Denard lost the support of the French intelligence service, but he managed to strengthen the link between SA and the Comoros.

Despite two coup attempts in the following three months, including one by Abeid, Bacar ’ s government remained in power, and was apparently more willing to negotiate with Comoros.

In May 2006, Ahmed Abdallah Sambi was elected from the island of Anjouan to be the president of the Union of Comoros.

* Note: in 1974 Mayotte was removed from the Comoros

One of President Abdallah's accomplishments was to make Comoros more accessible by air.

Comoros also confronted domestically the problem of the degree of democracy the government was prepared to grant to its citizens, a consideration that related to its standing in the world community.

The close relationship Comoros developed with South Africa in the 1980s was much less significant to both countries in the 1990s.

The status of Mayotte was changed in 2001 towards one very close to the status of the départements of mainland France, with the particular designation of collectivité départementale, although the island is still claimed by the Comoros.

Because Kidd was said to have buried treasure in the Comoros islands, and Moroni is the name of the capital city and largest settlement in the Comoros, it has been suggested that Smith borrowed the name of the settlement and applied it to the angel who led him to buried treasure — the golden plates.

Comoros is one of the world's poorest countries ; its per capita gross national product ( GNP — see Glossary ) was estimated at US $ 400 in 1994, following the January devaluation of the Comorian franc.

By 1990, the year Comoros concluded negotiations with the IMF for an economic restructuring program, the republic's total external public debt was US $ 162. 4 million, an amount equal to about three-quarters of GNP.

The banking system consists of the Central Bank of the Comoros ( Banque Centrale des Comores ) established in 1981 that had three offices ( Moroni ( Grande-Comore ), Mutsamudu ( Anjouan ) and Fomboni ( Mohéli )); the Bank for Industry and Commerce ( Banque pour l ' Industrie et le Commerce — BIC ), a commercial bank established in 1990 that had six branches in 1993 and was a subsidiary of the National Bank of Paris — International ( Banque Nationale de Paris — Internationale ); the Development Bank of Comoros ( Banque de Développement des Comores ), established in 1982, which provided support for small and midsize development projects, the Federal Bank of Commerce ( Banque Fédérale de Commerce ) and the Exim Bank Comores Ltd.

However, his particular specialty was intervening in the Comoros.

He was then supported by Paris, as the Comoros provided France for a base to get around the embargo against the apartheid regime of South Africa.

Denard was arrested in 1995 when he launched a fourth coup, Operation Kaskari, against Saïd Djohar, in the Comoros.

Azali Assoumani (, born January 1, 1959 ) was a president of the Comoros.

The current flag of the Union of the Comoros ( officially Union des Comores الات ّ حاد القمري ّ‎, al-Ittiḥādd al-Qamariyy ) was designed in 2001 and officially adopted on 7 January 2002.

Because Kidd was said to have buried treasure in the Comoros islands, it has been suggested that Smith used the name of the islands and applied it to the hill where he found buried treasure — the gold plates.

* Comoros ( gained independence from France in 1962 ), was with OCT status

The result was a victory for opponents of the President of the Comoros, Azali Assoumani.

After the reshuffle, Mr. Souef was named Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Comoros to the United Nations in New York ( April 2006 ).

The Comoros were also used for the evasion of arms sanctions.

Comoros also is a member of the African Union, the Arab League, the European Development Fund, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Indian Ocean Commission, and the African Development Bank.

Comoros also hosted an embassy of China, which established relations during the Soilih regime.

With the reform of its apartheid government, South Africa no longer needed Comoros as evidence of its ostensible ability to enjoy good relations with a black African state ; the end of the Cold War had also diminished Comoros ' strategic value to Pretoria.

He is also accredited to: Tanzania, the Comoros, United Nations Environment Programme, and United Nations Human Settlements Programme.

Mozambique has also been involved in many peacekeeping operations in Burundi, Comoros, The Democratic Republic of Congo, East Timor and Sudan.

Somalia, Djibouti, Comoros and Mauritania are geographically part of Sub-Saharan Africa, but also part of the Arab world.

Comoros also received 5. 7 million French francs from the French Aid and Cooperation Fund for agriculture and rural development.

The Bab-el-Mandab is also a sub-region in the Arab League, which includes Djibouti, Yemen, Somalia and the Comoros Islands.

The Arab League currently has 22 members, which also include, Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Kuwait, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia and UAE.

But these orchids can also be found on the Comoros, the Seychelles, and the Mascarenes.

Mayotte ( claimed by the Comoros, but under French administration ) is also mentioned in the song.

All vangas are endemic to Madagascar apart from the Blue Vanga which also occurs in the Comoros on Mohéli island and, at least formerly, on Grande Comore.

The Comoros also served as his logistic base for military operations in Mozambique and Angola.

In 2001, Guido Papalia, Italian attorney of Verona, prosecuted Denard for having tried to recruit mercenaries in the far-right Italian movement ( through Franco Nerozzi ) in order to make a coup against Colonel Azali Assoumani, the current president, also opposed to his return to the Comoros.

There is also a harbour with regular transport to the African mainland and the other islands in the Comoros archipelago, as well as Madagascar and other Indian ocean islands.

It can also be found in the Comoros, in Zanzibar, and some coastal areas of mainland Tanzania.

It lives in northern Madagascar and on the Comoros, it has been also introduced to Hawaii and other Pacific islands.

It can also be found on the island of Nosy Bé, the Comoros and Réunion island.

Approximately 50 species in this genus are known mostly from tropical Africa, but also from the Comoros Islands, Madagascar and Sri Lanka.

Comoros is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, mostly an independent nation but also including the French territory of Mayotte.

This in turn had broken the previous record of 168, 000 set in 2001 by D68C ( also by the FSDXA ) from the Galawa Beach Hotel on the Comoros island of Grande Comore.