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.
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ANTANANARIVO--The head of the African Union last Friday urged Madagascar’s leader, Andry Rajoelina, to accept a unity government to resolve a dragging political crisis, a day after he snubbed the offer.
“We have made proposals for (the accords) Maputo I and Addis Ababa to go into effect,” Jean Ping said during a short visit to the Indian Ocean island.
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.
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's rival camps.
Rajoelina, a former disc jockey and mayor of the capital Antananarivo, described the proposals as impossible.
“In 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,” a statement from the presidency said.
“The 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 . . .”
Disagreements between the island nation’s 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.
Rajoelina last month fired a consensus prime minister and named a new one to replace him.
Discord over sharing government posts and drawing up an election timetable by the four political parties have also hindered efforts to end the crisis. —
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