Madagascar’s embattled president dissolves parliament ahead of ouster vote

Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina on Tuesday dissolved the national assembly in a decree posted on Facebook a day after he uploaded a video declaring that he had left the country for a « safe place ». The dissolution order came ahead of an opposition-led vote to oust him. Youth protests, joined by mutinous soldiers, have plunged the impoverished island nation into a deep political crisis.