DJ, Businessman Face Off in Battle for Madagascar’s Presidency

Almost a decade after a military-backed ex-nightclub DJ seized power from a business tycoon in Madagascar, the two are squaring up again in a runoff vote to decide who’ll become the next president.

The failure by either candidate to accept the outcome could trigger a repeat of violence that’s marred previous ballots on the Indian Ocean island. That could pose a threat to the world’s biggest vanilla industry and businesses like Sumitomo Corp.’s Ambatovy nickel mine and Rio Tinto Group’s QMM mineral-sands project.