The official, Mohamad Ali Abdou, said by telephone from Moroni, the Comoran capital, that Comoran, Yemeni and French investigators recovered the flight data recorder of the plane, an Airbus A310, early Friday morning in waters near Moroni.
Earlier this year, the Indian Ocean Newsletter, a subsidiary of the political analysis firm Africa Intelligence, reported that Sambi's successor, Ikililou Dhoinine, was investigating the misappropriation of €24 million from an account opened by the Comoran government at the Central Bank of the UAE in Abu Dhabi for payments made by the UAE government for Comoran passports.
They stated that the Comoran and AU forces had been ambushed by Anjouanais forces during the early stages of their incursion at Domoni and had been forced to withdraw from what was a hopeless situation, "Contrary to its republican mission the National Army of Development Comoran Armyy) devotes itself to taking innocent citizens as hostages whose only wrong is to be Anjouanese and not Sambist.
The same sources reported that during the course of the operation "about twenty people" in Domoni died as a result of the Comoran and AU bombardment of Anjouanese positions.
But in the case of the Comoran deal with the UAE and Kuwait, the citizenships appear to have been sold en masse so they could be freely distributed among the bedoun with very few checks or balances in place.
The SSTR6 subtype was previously unrecognized, and could be identified in all teleost fish genomes, the spotted gar genome as well as the genome of the Comoran coelacanth.
The recent addition of the genomes of the Comoran coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae and the spotted gar Lepisosteus oculatus complements the previous set of species with pivotal out-groups for tetrapods and teleost fishes, respectively.
There was no comment from the Bacar government but the Comoran government spokesperson said that the invasion troops had been told to look for him and were conducting house to house searches.
He says neither the scientists running it nor the Comoran government have been monitoring side-effects from the drugs in a systematic way.
(The Sudanese had died, and the Kenyan had been detained in Sudan, he said, but the Comoran, as far as he knew, was still in Somalia).
France's Secretary of State for Overseas, Yves Jégo, said France would support the Comoran government's efforts.
