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JURIST (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
[JURIST] The current and former leaders of Madagascar reached a transitional power-sharing agreement on Saturday. According to the agreement, President Andry Rajoelina will now share power with representatives of the parties of ousted president Marc Ravalomanana and former president Albert Zafy. The agreement came out of meetings in Addis Abeba and is to be in accord with the Maputo agreements reached...
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Madagascar's former president Marc Ravalomanana, who was ousted in a coup earlier this year, is promising to cooperate in a transitional government with the young leader who replaced him. Madagascar's political chiefs reached a power sharing deal minutes before a deadline that would have cost the country nearly a billion dollars in aid money.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Nairobi/Addis Ababa - Madagascar's squabbling leaders on Saturday signed an agreement to form a power-sharing government after months of wrangling. Current President Andry Rajoelina and former president Marc Ravalomanana were among four leaders meeti...
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
A diplomatic compromise keeps a coup-maker happily in power WHEN Andry Rajoelina, a former mayor of Antananarivo, Madagascar’s capital, seized power in a bloodless coup in March, governments across the world, especially in Africa, rose up in condemnation. The United States and the European Union blocked all non-humanitarian aid to the impoverished Indian Ocean island. The African Union (AU)...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Deposed Malagasy president Marc Ravalomanana has accused an international contact group trying to mediate an end to the country's constitutional crisis of failing to respect a "spirit of neutrality and consensus."
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France24 (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
In keeping with a tentative power-sharing deal reached on Tuesday, coup leader Andry Rajoelina announced that he will name a consensus Prime Minister and Vice President. Ousted president Marc Ravalomanana has rejected the deal.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
The agreement on a multi-party transitional government for Madagascar has got off to a difficult start, with the deposed head of state, Marc Ravalomanana, refusing to sign the agreement recognizing the leader who deposed him, Andry Rajoelina, as head of the interim adminstration.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Madagascar’s political leaders have agreed to appoint a multiparty transitional government, headed by Andry Rajoelina, the leader who seized power last March, until new elections. The new administration will include representatives of ousted President Marc Ravalomanana.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Poverty has increased dramatically in Madagascar since January, when a national protest movement to end the regime of former president Marc Ravalomanana plunged the country into a socio-economic crisis. Since then, the number of child labourers has risen by a whopping 25 percent.
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The centre due to open on Wednesday (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
From time to time we will mention a company that may have previously paid per month for market data purchased from BUYINS. Thomson Reuters journalists are subject to an Editorial Handbook which requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests. In a decision on March, the pan African body said what happened in March constituted unconstitutional change of government, referring to the forced...
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I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Don't worry I know how to spell hypocrisy (at least I hope my spellchecker does..;) but I thought this new word I've just invented best describes the ANC regime's foreign dealings. I won't use the words "foreign policy" because the ANC doesn't have one except flipping the bird at the West and cosying up to dictators and terrorist regimes. Y'see, to the north of us we have a hypocracy run...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 09/06/2009
By Laperozy Eric The position taken by the current Madagascan transitional authority to keep both the presidency and the post of prime minister was rejected by the political forces led by three former presidents. Representatives of Marc Ravalomanana, Didier Ratsiraka and Albert Zafy denounced the decision announced by Andry Rajoelina, president of the ruling High Transitional Authority, as retrogression...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Andry Rajoelina (pictured), who ousted former President Marc Ravalomanana in a March coup, says he will name his prime minister on Friday. The opposition says the military should take the top three government posts.
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