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The African delegation also includes senior officials from Zambia, Senegal, Uganda, Egypt, the Republic of the Congo and the Comoro Islands.

The owner of the suitcase, a man from the Comoro Islands in East Africa, was later jailed for two years for smuggling.

His tragedy could serve as an allegory for Mayotte — an impoverished place neglected by France, though a better option nonetheless for huge numbers of desperate migrants arriving from the neighboring Comoro Islands.

Some patients she met in the Comoro Islands could hardly use their hands, and others couldn’t stand.

The fighting tradition spread across the country and to other islands off the southeast coast of Africa, including the Comoro Islands, La Reunion, the Seychelles and Mauritius.