Political crisis to be discussed in South Africa

Foreign ministers from southern Africa and Indian Ocean countries are to meet in South Africa next week to discuss the ongoing political crisis in the Comoro Islands, 'The Star' said on Wednesday. It said that opposition leaders on the islands of Grand Comore and Anjouan would be also be invited to the meeting. Anjouan is seeking to breakaway from the Comoro archipelago. "We must try and invite as any people as possible from the Comoros to try and find a solution," Foreign Minister Nkosazana Zuma was quoted as saying. There has been a political stalemate in the Comoro Islands since a coup in April. If democratic elections before June next year, the country could be expelled from the Organisation for African Unity (OAU). At the OAU summit in June, African leaders adopted a resolution not to accept regimes that had come to power through coups.