On the way to a new round of negotiations

A labelled “top level” meeting of the International Contact Group concerning Madagascar is being scheduled for next week within the African Union’s headquarters’ facilities in Addis Ababa. Madagascar’s bilateral and multilateral partners are in for it too. 

It will be he mediators’ opportunity to have a say in the run of the Great Isle’s political crisis. And this say is likely to be the organization of a new round of talks between the political mobility leaders. But long before all that coming true, the High Authority of Transition is making its reluctance public. A radical wing is swearing by the “unilateral” management of the transitional period until the next elections, even if it kills it. A growing breakaway side is suggesting the implementation of the agreements already signed in Maputo in order to lower political tensions. 

The other political mobilities are looking fit for a new round of talks. Andry Rajoelina is miles away from feeling the same way. The young putsch maker has, as everyone knows, did his best to avoid a new Maputo showdown organized by the Mozambican former president, Joachim Chissano, main mediator stemming from the SADC. For having his home support capital melting down, he might find it far more difficult to do it again, could the international mediators convene a new meeting.