Madagascar: A Year After Madagascar's Gen Z Protests and Rajoelina's Ouster, Little Promised Change
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"Madagascar, a year after the coup d'état" (1/4) Launched in September 2025, the Malagasy youth protest movement, which led to the overthrow of President Andry Rajoelina, ran up against the promises of a "refoundation" of power by the junta that remained a dead letter.
Madagascar: A Year After Madagascar's Gen Z Protests and Rajoelina's Ouster, Little Promised Change
A year after Madagascar's then-president Andry Rajoelina fled the country following more than two weeks of youth-led protests, the military-backed transition has yet to deliver on its promise of a political "refoundation".
While the GEN Z, weakened by its internal divisions, is marginalized, Colonel Michaël Randrianirina must organize the elections that will put an end, in a year's time, to the transition that he presides, and in which he may well participate.
A year ago, it was a day of change in Madagascar. On October 11, 2025, Colonel Michael Randrianirina took the floor from CAPSAT to call on the security forces to stop repressing the "Gen Z" mobilized for more than two weeks against President Andry Rajoelina. A few hours after this resounding message, thousands of protesters were - for the first time - irrupting into the symbolic 13-May Square, accompanied by the military. This mutiny precipitate…
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