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Separatists defy OAU

    JOHANNESBURG

    The breakaway Comoro island of Anjouan "will not stand idly by" as the Organization of African Unity (OAU) meddles in its internal affairs, the island's separatist leader Said Abeid Abderemane told AFP on Thursday. "The people of Anjouan will not stand idly by if the OAU interferes further in Anjouan's internal affairs," Abderemane was quoted as saying. He was reacting to an OAU announcement imposing travel and financial restrictions on the Anjouan separatists for failing to meet a 1 February deadline to sign the Antananarivo Agreement for unity in the Indian Ocean archipelago.

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