The Union of Comoros is not usually in the big leagues. For years, it stayed in the shadows of close neighbours Mauritius and the Seychelles, wallowing in isolation, poverty and conflict, and being host to one of the notorious coup ‘corps’ under French mercenary Bob Denard.
This week, however, it will get a day in the sun by chairing the African Union Assembly for the first time in the continental body’s two decades.
