The first president of Comoros, Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane, did not last long before being ousted in a coup by Ali Soilih, an atheist with an Islamic background.

A French mercenary by the name of Bob Denard, arrived in Comoros at dawn on 13 May 1978, and removed Soilih from power.

The three years of estrangement following the unilateral declaration of independence and the nationalistic Soilih regime were followed during the conservative Abdallah and Djohar regimes by a period of growing trade, aid, cultural, and defense links between the former colony and France, punctuated by frequent visits to Paris by the head of state and occasional visits by the French president to Moroni.

* May 12 – May 13 – A group of mercenaries led by Bob Denard oust Ali Soilih in the Comoros ; 10 local soldiers are killed.

Ahmed Abdallah was replaced by Ali Soilih.

Soilih created the ' Moissy ', a young revolutionary militia trained by Tanzanian military advisers.

Growing discontent promoted by the political opposition resulted in four unsuccessful coup attempts against the Soilih regime during its two and a half-year existence.

On May 13, 1978, Soilih was finally overthrown by a fifty-member European mercenary unit, hired by exiled former leader Ahmed Abdallah in France and led by French Colonel Bob Denard.

After Abdallah took over, Soilih's policies were reversed and the name of the country was changed to " Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros ", Abdallah became president, and Soilih was soon assassinated by Abdallah's supporters.

In 1978, president Ali Soilih, who had a firm anti-French line, was killed and Ahmed Abdallah came to power.

In 1970 Ali Soilih entered politics as a supporter of Said Ibrahim, leader of the Democratic Assembly of the Comoran People, Rassemblement démocratique du Peuple Comorien ( RDPC ), and soon developed an ideology based on hostility against France as former colonial power.

Soilih began with a set of solid socialist ideals designed to modernize the country.

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

* May 29 – Ali Soilih is found dead in the Comoros, allegedly shot when trying to escape.

Nationalization, even during the Soilih years, has been limited.

Soilih did expropriate the facilities of a foreign oil company, but only after the government of Madagascar took over the company's plants in that country.

With the support of the Rhodesian government, he returned to the Comoros with 43 men on May 13, 1978 and carried out a coup against president Ali Soilih, who had turned toward socialist policies.

Soilih was killed under mysterious circumstances on May 29, 1978.

Ali Soilih, full name Ali Soilih Mtsashiwa, ( January 7, 1937 – May 29, 1978 ) was a Comorian socialist revolutionary and political figure.

Soilih was born in Majunga, Madagascar.

Less than a month after Comoros gained independence from France, Soilih overthrew President Said Mohamed Jaffar and became head of a revolutionary council which took over Comoros.

This occurred on August 3, 1975 when Soilih, whose adherents were barely armed, hired French mercenary Bob Denard to overthrow Abdallah.

Soilih officially became President of the revolutionary council in January 1976.

Soilih embarked on a revolutionary program that was mainly directed against the traditional Muslim society of the country.

In the case of metastatic breast cancer, a Cochrane Review published in 2008 maintained that the current body of evidence is not sufficient to rule out the possibility that psychological interventions may cause harm to women with this advanced neoplasm.

Others have argued that calculator use can even cause core mathematical skills to atrophy, or that such use can prevent understanding of advanced algebraic concepts.

Dr. Rick Strassman, while conducting DMT research in the 1990s at the University of New Mexico, advanced the controversial hypothesis that a massive release of DMT from the pineal gland prior to death or near death was the cause of the near death experience ( NDE ) phenomenon.

This is a very advanced stage of ascetical and spiritual practice, and attempting to accomplish this prematurely, especially with psychophysical techniques, can cause very serious spiritual and emotional harm to the would-be Hesychast.

At the center were members of the Bauhaus, a European architectural movement that had advanced the cause of modernist design.

Yet, if the purpose of Polo's tales was to impress others with tales of his high esteem and fond regard in an advanced civilization, then it is possible that Polo shrewdly would omit those details that would cause his listeners to scoff at the Chinese with a sense of European superiority.

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The concept that insulin resistance may be the underlying cause of diabetes mellitus type 2 was first advanced by Prof. Wilhelm Falta and published in Vienna in 1931, and confirmed as contributary by Sir Harold Percival Himsworth of the University College Hospital Medical Centre in London in 1936.

A defect in the human homologue of the Drosophila " period " gene was identified as a cause of the sleep disorder FASPS ( Familial advanced sleep phase syndrome ), underscoring the conserved nature of the molecular circadian clock through evolution.

The decrease in blood pressure can then cause blood vessels to contract, resulting in a pale or bluish skin color in advanced cases of heat stroke.

The Emperor Louis II took up the cause of the deposed bishops, while King Lothair advanced upon Rome with an army and laid siege to the city, so that the pope was confined for two days in St. Peter's without food.

Wheat mildew is a wheat disease that affects the ear, and is brought on by causes somewhat similar to those that cause blight, though at a more advanced period of the season.

The cause of authentic performance was advanced in 1965 by the publication of a new edition of the score, edited by Watkins Shaw.

Although advanced cancer may cause pain, it is often not the first symptom.

Frankfurter further wrote that the recitation of a pledge advanced the cause of patriotism in the United States.

Aretas, bribed by Antipater, who also promised him the restitution of the Arabian towns taken by the Hasmoneans, readily espoused the cause of Hyrcanus and advanced toward Jerusalem with an army of fifty thousand.

At meetings of the Society for the Promotion of Amateur Photography ( Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Amateur-Photographie ), other photographers, including Heinrich Beck, George Einbeck, and Otto Scharf, advanced the cause of pictorialism.

In advanced cases, the disease may cause heart failure and death.

This is partly due to the fact that windsurfing crashes tend to cause less injury than those sports which take place on harder surfaces ( although being reckless whilst windsurfing in advanced conditions can still cause serious injury or death due to the speeds and altitudes involved ).

The early 1930s saw a shift in ideological focus away from collectivist propaganda and towards “ positive heroism .” Instead of glorifying socialist collectivism as a means of societal advancement, the Soviet Communist Party began uplifting individuals who committed heroic actions that advanced the cause of socialism.

Schizophrenia spectrum disorders ( of which schizoaffective disorder is a part ) have been marginally linked to advanced paternal age at the time of conception, a known cause of genetic mutations.

Since no scientifically verifiable physical cause can be adduced to support the phenomenon of the sun, various explanations have been advanced to explain the descriptions given by numerous witnesses.

Some economists have advanced the growing exports of China as a contributing factor to ASEAN nations ' export growth slowdown, though these economists maintain the main cause of the crises was excessive real estate speculation.