IFS officer Bandaru Wilsonbabu, presently joint secretary in the ministry of external affairs, has been appointed as the next ambassador of India to the Republic of Madagascar.
Madagascar
Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately 400 kilometres off the coast of East Africa across the Mozambique Channel. At 592,800 square kilometres Madagascar is the world’s second-largest island country, after Indonesia.
- Capital: Antananarivo
- Currency: Malagasy ariary
- Population: 2.77 crores (2020) World Bank
- Official languages: Malagasy, French