In Madagascar, street vendors back on the avenue de l'Indépendance

At the end of March, the Avenue de l'Indépendance, in the heart of the Malagasy capital, had been emptied in a few days from all its travelling merchants. A decision of the municipality wanted to be sustainable and taken in the name of a return to order and security in the city centre. But the mayor of Antananarivo, in this case, has come up against the resistance of street vendors who have been secretly returning to their neighbourhood for a we…