Sitting with a few reporters in an empty conference room at African Union headquarters, he compared Mr.Rajoelina to his own son, who is about the same age.
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His lunch, which he ate on his own inan enormous, empty dining room while reading a book under the absentminded gaze of the elderly maid, and the black-and-white gaze of his deceased wife looking out from photographs in ornate silver frames, was light: soup and a small portion of fish and mashed potatoes, some of which he would allow to go cold.