‘We don’t want power, we want light’: Madagascar awaits post-Rajoelina era

‘We don’t want power, we want light’: Madagascar awaits post-Rajoelina era

Antananarivo, Madagascar – On a typical Sunday morning in Mahamasina, a suburb of Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo, Sarobidy Ramarimanana joined the queue at her neighbourhood water point just after sunrise. “I just wanted to fill my jerrycan and go to church,” she told Al Jazeera. “I was about to draw water when people started running; jerrycans everywhere.” The sound of police sirens had sparked panic, interrupting the calm of the neighbourho…

‘We don’t want power, we want lights’: Madagascar awaits post-Rajoelina era

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