{"id":225050,"date":"2010-01-24T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16711557.post-3173976084133925222"},"modified":"2010-01-24T22:38:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T03:38:47","slug":"african-union-commision-chair-urges-madagascar-leader-to-accept-unitygovernment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/225050","title":{"rendered":"African Union Commision Chair Urges Madagascar Leader to Accept Unity\nGovernment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/53911892@N00\/2504859626\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2265\/2504859626_4b28852e49_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/53911892@N00\/2504859626\/\">Jean Ping of Gabon is the current Chair of the African Union Commission. He has expressed the notion that Chad and Sudan will not go to war.<\/a><br \/>Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/53911892@N00\/\">Pan-African News Wire File Photos<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>AU chief urges Madagascar leader to accept unity govt<\/p>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n<p>ANTANANARIVO&#8211;The head of the African Union last Friday urged Madagascar\u2019s leader, Andry Rajoelina, to accept a unity government to resolve a dragging political crisis, a day after he snubbed the offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have made proposals for (the accords) Maputo I and Addis Ababa to go into effect,\u201d Jean Ping said during a short visit to the Indian Ocean island.<\/p>\n<p>Rajoelina, who seized power in March 2009 with military backing, last Thursday rejected AU proposals to implement an August power-sharing deal with his rivals.<\/p>\n<p>The proposals, fine-tuned in the Mozambican and Ethiopian capitals, Maputo and Addis Ababa, also provide for the establishment of a presidential council and the posts of two co-presidents, both of whom will come from Rajoelina&#8217;s rival camps.<\/p>\n<p>Rajoelina, a former disc jockey and mayor of the capital Antananarivo, described the proposals as impossible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn view of the evolving situation any power-sharing has become impossible because it has already become a source for a new crisis and the cause for serious troubles in our country recently,\u201d a statement from the presidency said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe experience of power-sharing, for the brief period when we tried it, has amply proven that this proposal cannot be a solution to the political crisis . . .\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Disagreements between the island nation\u2019s four main political groups have scuttled repeated efforts to end the impasse there, with de facto leader Rajoelina trampling on previous deals to form a unity government.<\/p>\n<p>Rajoelina last month fired a consensus prime minister and named a new one to replace him.<\/p>\n<p>Discord over sharing government posts and drawing up an election timetable by the four political parties have also hindered efforts to end the crisis. \u2014<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/16711557-3173976084133925222?l=panafricannews.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Ping of Gabon is the current Chair of the African Union Commission. He has expressed the notion that Chad and Sudan will not go to war.Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos AU chief urges Madagascar leader to accept unity govt AFP ANTANANARIVO&#8211;The head of the African Union last Friday urged Madagascar\u2019s leader, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}