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2019 In The Comoros
Events in the year 2019 in the Comoros. Incumbents * President: Azali Assoumani Events * 24 March – 2019 Comorian presidential election: President Azali Assoumani was re-elected in the first round of voting.Former Army Chief in Coup-Prone Comoros Rejects Vote Results Bloomberg, 28 March 2019 * 21 April – Cyclone Kenneth causes several deaths in the Comoros. Sports * 2019 Comoros Premier League[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comoros
The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city is Moroni, Comoros, Moroni. The religion of the majority of the population, and the official state religion, is Sunni Islam. Comoros proclaimed its List of sovereign states by date of formation, independence from France on 6 July 1975. The Comoros is the only country of the Arab League which is entirely in the Southern Hemisphere. It is a member state of the African Union, the ''Organisation internationale de la Francophonie'', the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation, and the Indian Ocean Commission. The country has three official languages: Shikomori, French language, French and Arabic. At , the Comoros is the third-smallest African country by area after São Tomé and Príncipe and Seychelles. In 2019, its population was estimated to be 850,886. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Heads Of State Of The Comoros
This article lists the heads of state of the Comoros, since the country gained independence from France in 1975. Term limits A new constitution, approved in the 2018 Comorian constitutional referendum, 2018 constitutional referendum allows the president to run for two consecutive five-year terms. Previously during the time of Union of the Comoros, there was a one-term rotational system in place to share the presidency between Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli. List of officeholders Timeline Succession Article 58 of the Comorian Constitution states that "in case of absolute absence of a President" the following should happen: * If the absence (death, resignation, etc.) should occur within the first 900 days of the term, the cabinet ministers and other members of the government select among the ministers a "main minister" to serve as Interim President. Elections must also be called in no more than 60 days after the absence of the President occurs; the person who wins those ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azali Assoumani
Azali Assoumani (; born 1 January 1959) is a Comorian politician and military officer who has served as the seventh President of the Comoros from 2002 to 2006 and again since 2016, except for a brief period in 2019. He became head of state after staging a coup d'état in 1999 and was elected president in 2002, 2016, 2019 and 2024. He also served as Chairperson of the African Union from February 2023 to February 2024. Assoumani's current presidency has been described as increasingly authoritarian. Early life Born in 1959 in Mitsoudjé, French Comoros, Assoumani trained at the Meknes Royal Military Academy in Morocco and the École de Guerre in Paris. Political career Assoumani became the President of the Council of State of the Comoros in 1999 after overthrowing interim president Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde in a coup d'état. His troops justified the coup on the basis of protecting territorial integrity after Massounde had begun negotiations with representatives of the isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Comorian Presidential Election
Early presidential elections were held in the Comoros on 24 March 2019 alongside regional elections.Comoros: Presidential elections scheduled for March 2019 Garda World, 31 December 2018 A second round would have been held on 21 April if required, but incumbent President was re-elected in the first round of voting. Electoral system Until 2018, the of the Comoros rotated between the country's three m ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyclone Kenneth
Intense Tropical Cyclone Kenneth was the strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall in Mozambique since modern records began. The cyclone also caused significant damage in the Comoro Islands and Tanzania. The fourteenth tropical storm, record-breaking tenth tropical cyclone, and ninth intense tropical cyclone of the 2018–19 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season, Kenneth formed from a vortex that the Météo-France office on La Réunion (MFR) first mentioned on 17 April. The MFR monitored the system over the next several days, before designating it as Tropical Disturbance 14 on 21 April. The disturbance was located in a favorable environment to the north of Madagascar, which allowed it to strengthen into a tropical depression and later a tropical storm, both on the next day. The storm then began a period of rapid intensification, ultimately peaking as an intense tropical cyclone with 10-minute sustained winds of and a minimum central pressure of 934 hPa (27.58 inHg). At that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
