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Comoro chief opposes OAU intervention against rebels

    JOHANNESBURG

    President Azaly Assoumani of the Comoro Islands said on Thursday the Organisation for African Unity (OAU) could take harsher steps against rebels on the Indian Ocean archipelago's breakaway Anjouan island. But he said he was opposed to a military intervention, news reports said on Friday. Assoumani said the OAU would take further action if an embargo imposed last February failed to get the secessionists to abide by an OAU-sponsored accord. "I hope we can avoid having to resort to intervention. We belong to the same family," he told Reuters in an interview. Assoumani said the embargo was beginning to bite, but there was no sign of the rebels returning to the negotiating table.

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