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]]> President Cyril Ramaphosa’s calling on Madagascar’s regional partners to step in an help restore security and stability in the country torn by conflict.

He was speaking at the SADC double troika meeting in Luanda  that looked at troubleshoots among the 15-nation grouping.

Being roped in as regional mediator in Lesotho, while he was still deputy president, has clearly given President Cyril Ramaphosa an appetite for active good neighborliness.

Today he reported progress in the mountain kingdom to his SADC counterparts charged with regional political and security stability….

….adding that Madagascar, where two people died in protests at the weekend, could do with some of it.

“This calls from some timely intervention from the region,” he said

Ramaphosa says the situation on the island state cannot be allowed to slide back to the chaotic conditions it experienced after the 2009 coup.

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