US EditionMadagascar’s president leaves country on French military plane after Gen Z protests: Report
- On Sunday, President Andry Rajoelina said an `attempted illegal and forcible seizure of power` was underway in Madagascar, nation of 31 million, while Corps d'administration des personnels et des services administratifs et techniques installed General Demosthene Pikulas as new military chief with defence minister approval.
- Since September 25, youth-led Gen Z Madagascar movement protests began over water and electricity shortages, unemployment and corruption, expanding into calls for resignation in Antananarivo.
- Colonel Michael Randrianirina said CAPSAT soldiers exchanged gunfire with loyalist security forces during weekend clashes, losing one soldier, and officers declared army orders would come from CAPSAT headquarters while escorting protesters to the main square in Antananarivo.
- Siteny Randrianasoloniaiko said, "The president left the country, we called the staff of the presidency and they confirmed that he left the country," and Madagascar's National Assembly opposition members will begin impeachment proceedings on Monday.
- CAPSAT's history shows it helped bring Andry Rajoelina to power in 2009, giving it significant influence over Madagascar's military and political crises.
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A rebel military unit in Madagascar, the Land Army Personnel and Services Administration Corps (Capsat), announced Tuesday the abolition of the Constitution and the seizure of power in this South-East African island country. The movement comes after President Andry Rajoelina, who fled the country last Sunday, dissolved Parliament hours earlier, when deputies gathered signatures to remove him. Continue reading
Madagascar president flees country amid Gen Z protests
Arrests on the streets of Madagascar. At least 22 killed – in anti-government protests – according to the UN. And a hundred reported injured in clashes with security forces. All figures disputed by the country’s government. Gen Z accuse those in power of failing to manage basic resources, blaming it for the economy and widespread poverty. And now after weeks of protests, thousands – many of them students, gathered, calling for the president to s…
Antananarivo. Madagascar’s president, Andry Rajoelina, announced yesterday that he left the country amid youth protests backed by an elite army unit, aboard a French military aircraft, authorized by the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.
The president of Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina, has been sentenced to "reforming the Constitution in force", in his first speech after his flight from the country, after the military joined the protesters in protesting the power on the weekend.
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