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Album 2000 [pay00] says:
2. State of Anjouan (Nzwani) [unrecognized]Red flag with white hand and crescent. Somewhat different from the image above in details, but basically the same flag. It is questionable how much details we may ask from this kind of flag anyway.— 2:3
As for the Anjouan flags, yes, the red has always
been darker than the French red
on the flags I’ve seen (although this may change / have
changed as people try to affirm the French link).
Iain Walker, 14 Feb 2000
A photo showing the
flag of Anjouan near to the Comorian national
flag shows clearly that the former’s background is
plain medium red, not dark red.
António Martins, 02 Feb 2004
On Anjouan
web site it seems that the hand is detached
form the crescent. It’s also hard to say if the
thumb is on the left or the right oriented,
because we don’t know which side of the flag is
represented on Anjouan website.
Pascal Gross, 10 Apr 1998
Calvarin [clv02] shows the flag
of Anjouan with the hand directly placed on the crescent.
Ivan Sache, 20 Apr 2002
According to the constitution, the flag is charged
with an open right hand. In any case, logic says
it’s a right hand — it would be fairly unthinkable for
an Islamic country to put a left hand on its flag!
Iain Walker, 10 Feb 1999
No one doubts, for the implyed resons, that the pictured hand is right, but the question about whether the thumb is pointing to the top or to the bottom of the flag remains because a right hand can be depicted both ventrally and dorsally, and if only the contour is shown, as in the anjou
