Southern African leaders urged Madagascar’s president, Andry Rajoelina, to meet his exiled predecessor “as a matter of urgency” to advance plans to end a political stalemate in the Indian Ocean island nation.
The Southern African Development Community ordered its mediator for Madagascar, former Mozambican President Joaquim Albert Chissano, to convene the meeting, the 15-nation bloc said in a statement on June 2 after a leaders’ summit in Luanda, Angola’s capital.
