Rajoelina pledges to tackle graft

Madagascar's new President has been sworn in and vows to establish independent bodies to combat the Indian Ocean island nation's widespread corruption. A report on the News24 site notes that Andry Rajoelina, who led the country from 2009 to 2014 in a transitional government after a military coup, told a rally in Antananarivo on Saturday that for the first time since independence Madagascar is seeing a peaceful, democratic transfer of power between two elected leaders. Rajoelina won in a runoff after the Constitutional Court rejected all complaints filed over the results.