Minister of Defense Mohamed Bacar Dossar of Comoros

Mr Mohamed Bacar Abdou Dossar has been retained as the Minister of Defence and Territorial Security and Director of Cabinet.

Dossar said three rebels had been killed and 10 wounded, with no casualties inflicted on the government side in the clashes on Anjouan, one of three islands in the coup-prone Indian Ocean archipelago.

but you cannot secure control of the whole island in three hours," Defense Minister Mohamed Bacar Dossar said in Moroni, the Comoros' federal capital.