The CAPSAT unit, which on Saturday (11 October 2025) announced it was joining protests against the Malagasy government and president Andry Rajoelina, saying it would not \u2018follow illegal orders\u2019 to \u2018shoot our brothers and sisters\u2019 (the demonstrators) made the announcement today.<\/h4>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CAPSAT-takeover-300x240.png\")
<\/h4>\nCAPSAT (Corps d\u2019administration des personnels et des services administratifs et techniques<\/em>) leader, Colonel Michael Randrianirina, announced to reporters in Antananarivo that the Malagasy military will form a \u2018council\u2019 of officers from the army, military police (gendarmerie) and police, which would take on the roles up to now carried out by the Malagasy president.<\/h4>\nIt is a notable development not only because this would be a major constitutional change in Madagascar, handing the powers of the head of state to three military and security bodies instead of an elected representative of the people, but also because CAPSAT originally made its break with the government after a member of the gendarmerie, which along with the Malagasy police is believed to have killed 22 Malagasy civilian demonstrators and injured a further 100 in 18 days of protests, shot a CAPSAT soldier.<\/h4>\nColonel Randrianirina said the council would \u2018quickly\u2019 appoint a prime minister to form a civilian government.<\/h4>\nHe said: \u2018Perhaps in time the council will include senior civilian advisers. It is this committee that will carry out the work of the presidency. After a few days, we will set up a civilian government.<\/em>\u2019<\/h4>\nDespite these statements, CAPSAT has announced that it has suspended all Malagasy constitutional institutions, including the senate (whose head would, under the Malagasy constitution, ordinarily take over the roles of the president and organise an election for a new president to be elected), the constitutional court and the electoral commission.<\/h4>\nTaking questions after the statement, he told an Agence-France Presse reporter: \u2018We have taken power.<\/em>\u2019<\/h4>\nAnd although Randrianirina \u2013 who appears now to be the de facto head of the Malagasy state \u2013 said that Gen Z Madagascar would be included in the new Malagasy government, he said that there will be no immediate elections, instead saying: \u2018We will form a government, and reach consensus. Elections will happen in the next 18 months to two years.<\/em><\/h4>\n\u2018We had no choice,\u2019 he added. \u2018There is no president, there is no government. Nothing here works.<\/em>\u2019<\/h4>\nRandrianirina\u2019s statements were made soon after the Malagasy parliament\u2019s lower house \u2013 including Rajoelina\u2019s own party IRMAR \u2013 had voted to impeach Rajoelina, though he denied its right to do so, saying he had dissolved parliament hours before.<\/h4>\nThe Malagasy presidential Facebook account issued a statement saying: \u2018The parliamentary session is devoid of legal basis. There has been an attempted coup d\u2019etat. The president of the republic remains fully in office and is ensuring the maintenance of constitutional order and national stability.\u2019<\/h4>\nIt is not clear from where he made this statement.<\/h4>\nAs we noted in our detailed update yesterday<\/a>, Rajoelina had been scheduled to address the nation in a broadcast which was postponed three times yesterday evening.<\/h4>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CAPSAT-takeover2-300x167.png\")
But shortly before midnight, he made a broadcast not on national Malagasy television, as had been announced, but on the president\u2019s Facebook Live account, and VIVA.<\/h4>\nIn his address, he gave no indication of his whereabouts, but said he had been \u2018forced into hiding\u2019 because of \u2018threats made against my life<\/em>\u2019.<\/h4>\nIt is almost certain that Rajoelina left Madagascar on Sunday (12th<\/sup> October) following protests and demonstrations across the country which had begun on Thursday 25th<\/sup> September in Antananarivo.<\/h4>\nThese demonstrations, led by young Malagasy people under the name \u2018Gen Z Madagascar\u2019 were first against continual long-lasting power and water cuts, but soon grew into protests against human rights violations, alleged corruption, poverty and low living standards in Madagascar.<\/h4>\nRajoelina\u2019s government and security forces reacted strongly to the protests, attempting to ban all demonstrations, then using tear gas, rubber bullets and baton charges against protestors, and in the first few days \u2013 in which demonstrations took place across the country \u2013 the UN reported that 22 people had been killed.<\/h4>\nThe protests continued, and on Sunday, a day after CAPSAT announced it was backing the protestors, Madagascar Aviation reports that Rajoelina\u2019s helicopter left the presidential palace and landed on Sainte Marie island, Eastern Madagascar. A few minutes later, Madagascar Aviation\u2019s Facebook page reports, he boarded a French military aircraft to Reunion.<\/h4>\nFrom there he is reported to have flown to Dubai, though it is not known whether this was his final destination, or another stopover.<\/h4>\nFrench president Emmanuel Macron has still not confirmed this version of events, however.<\/h4>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CAPSAT-takeover1-300x240.png\")
<\/p>\n
Protestors, including Gen Z Madagascar on its social media pages, celebrated today\u2019s CAPSAT announcement, though some expressed concern about the military\u2019s longer-term intentions.<\/h4>\n
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Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. A unit of the Malagasy army has claimed it has \u2018taken power\u2019 in Madagascar. The CAPSAT unit, which on Saturday (11 October 2025) announced it was joining protests against the Malagasy government and president Andry Rajoelina, saying it would not \u2018follow illegal orders\u2019 to \u2018shoot our brothers and sisters\u2019 (the demonstrators) made the announcement today. CAPSAT (Corps d\u2019administration des personnels et des services administratifs et techniques) leader, Colonel Michael Randrianirina, announced to reporters in Antananarivo that the Malagasy military will form a \u2018council\u2019 of officers from the army,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":23157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,235,429,430,187,188,621,432],"tags":[667,655,666,400,115,205,664,665,663,436,657],"class_list":["post-23153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antananarivo","category-community","category-france","category-macron","category-madagascar","category-malagasy","category-power","category-rajoelina","tag-army","tag-capsat","tag-elections","tag-government","tag-madagascar","tag-malagasy","tag-military","tag-president","tag-protests","tag-rajoelina","tag-randrianirina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23158,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions\/23158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/h4>\nCAPSAT (Corps d\u2019administration des personnels et des services administratifs et techniques<\/em>) leader, Colonel Michael Randrianirina, announced to reporters in Antananarivo that the Malagasy military will form a \u2018council\u2019 of officers from the army, military police (gendarmerie) and police, which would take on the roles up to now carried out by the Malagasy president.<\/h4>\nIt is a notable development not only because this would be a major constitutional change in Madagascar, handing the powers of the head of state to three military and security bodies instead of an elected representative of the people, but also because CAPSAT originally made its break with the government after a member of the gendarmerie, which along with the Malagasy police is believed to have killed 22 Malagasy civilian demonstrators and injured a further 100 in 18 days of protests, shot a CAPSAT soldier.<\/h4>\nColonel Randrianirina said the council would \u2018quickly\u2019 appoint a prime minister to form a civilian government.<\/h4>\nHe said: \u2018Perhaps in time the council will include senior civilian advisers. It is this committee that will carry out the work of the presidency. After a few days, we will set up a civilian government.<\/em>\u2019<\/h4>\nDespite these statements, CAPSAT has announced that it has suspended all Malagasy constitutional institutions, including the senate (whose head would, under the Malagasy constitution, ordinarily take over the roles of the president and organise an election for a new president to be elected), the constitutional court and the electoral commission.<\/h4>\nTaking questions after the statement, he told an Agence-France Presse reporter: \u2018We have taken power.<\/em>\u2019<\/h4>\nAnd although Randrianirina \u2013 who appears now to be the de facto head of the Malagasy state \u2013 said that Gen Z Madagascar would be included in the new Malagasy government, he said that there will be no immediate elections, instead saying: \u2018We will form a government, and reach consensus. Elections will happen in the next 18 months to two years.<\/em><\/h4>\n\u2018We had no choice,\u2019 he added. \u2018There is no president, there is no government. Nothing here works.<\/em>\u2019<\/h4>\nRandrianirina\u2019s statements were made soon after the Malagasy parliament\u2019s lower house \u2013 including Rajoelina\u2019s own party IRMAR \u2013 had voted to impeach Rajoelina, though he denied its right to do so, saying he had dissolved parliament hours before.<\/h4>\nThe Malagasy presidential Facebook account issued a statement saying: \u2018The parliamentary session is devoid of legal basis. There has been an attempted coup d\u2019etat. The president of the republic remains fully in office and is ensuring the maintenance of constitutional order and national stability.\u2019<\/h4>\nIt is not clear from where he made this statement.<\/h4>\nAs we noted in our detailed update yesterday<\/a>, Rajoelina had been scheduled to address the nation in a broadcast which was postponed three times yesterday evening.<\/h4>\nBut shortly before midnight, he made a broadcast not on national Malagasy television, as had been announced, but on the president\u2019s Facebook Live account, and VIVA.<\/h4>\nIn his address, he gave no indication of his whereabouts, but said he had been \u2018forced into hiding\u2019 because of \u2018threats made against my life<\/em>\u2019.<\/h4>\nIt is almost certain that Rajoelina left Madagascar on Sunday (12th<\/sup> October) following protests and demonstrations across the country which had begun on Thursday 25th<\/sup> September in Antananarivo.<\/h4>\nThese demonstrations, led by young Malagasy people under the name \u2018Gen Z Madagascar\u2019 were first against continual long-lasting power and water cuts, but soon grew into protests against human rights violations, alleged corruption, poverty and low living standards in Madagascar.<\/h4>\nRajoelina\u2019s government and security forces reacted strongly to the protests, attempting to ban all demonstrations, then using tear gas, rubber bullets and baton charges against protestors, and in the first few days \u2013 in which demonstrations took place across the country \u2013 the UN reported that 22 people had been killed.<\/h4>\nThe protests continued, and on Sunday, a day after CAPSAT announced it was backing the protestors, Madagascar Aviation reports that Rajoelina\u2019s helicopter left the presidential palace and landed on Sainte Marie island, Eastern Madagascar. A few minutes later, Madagascar Aviation\u2019s Facebook page reports, he boarded a French military aircraft to Reunion.<\/h4>\nFrom there he is reported to have flown to Dubai, though it is not known whether this was his final destination, or another stopover.<\/h4>\nFrench president Emmanuel Macron has still not confirmed this version of events, however.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Protestors, including Gen Z Madagascar on its social media pages, celebrated today\u2019s CAPSAT announcement, though some expressed concern about the military\u2019s longer-term intentions.<\/h4>\n
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Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. A unit of the Malagasy army has claimed it has \u2018taken power\u2019 in Madagascar. The CAPSAT unit, which on Saturday (11 October 2025) announced it was joining protests against the Malagasy government and president Andry Rajoelina, saying it would not \u2018follow illegal orders\u2019 to \u2018shoot our brothers and sisters\u2019 (the demonstrators) made the announcement today. CAPSAT (Corps d\u2019administration des personnels et des services administratifs et techniques) leader, Colonel Michael Randrianirina, announced to reporters in Antananarivo that the Malagasy military will form a \u2018council\u2019 of officers from the army,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":23157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,235,429,430,187,188,621,432],"tags":[667,655,666,400,115,205,664,665,663,436,657],"class_list":["post-23153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antananarivo","category-community","category-france","category-macron","category-madagascar","category-malagasy","category-power","category-rajoelina","tag-army","tag-capsat","tag-elections","tag-government","tag-madagascar","tag-malagasy","tag-military","tag-president","tag-protests","tag-rajoelina","tag-randrianirina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23158,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions\/23158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Colonel Randrianirina said the council would \u2018quickly\u2019 appoint a prime minister to form a civilian government.<\/h4>\nHe said: \u2018Perhaps in time the council will include senior civilian advisers. It is this committee that will carry out the work of the presidency. After a few days, we will set up a civilian government.<\/em>\u2019<\/h4>\nDespite these statements, CAPSAT has announced that it has suspended all Malagasy constitutional institutions, including the senate (whose head would, under the Malagasy constitution, ordinarily take over the roles of the president and organise an election for a new president to be elected), the constitutional court and the electoral commission.<\/h4>\nTaking questions after the statement, he told an Agence-France Presse reporter: \u2018We have taken power.<\/em>\u2019<\/h4>\nAnd although Randrianirina \u2013 who appears now to be the de facto head of the Malagasy state \u2013 said that Gen Z Madagascar would be included in the new Malagasy government, he said that there will be no immediate elections, instead saying: \u2018We will form a government, and reach consensus. Elections will happen in the next 18 months to two years.<\/em><\/h4>\n\u2018We had no choice,\u2019 he added. \u2018There is no president, there is no government. Nothing here works.<\/em>\u2019<\/h4>\nRandrianirina\u2019s statements were made soon after the Malagasy parliament\u2019s lower house \u2013 including Rajoelina\u2019s own party IRMAR \u2013 had voted to impeach Rajoelina, though he denied its right to do so, saying he had dissolved parliament hours before.<\/h4>\nThe Malagasy presidential Facebook account issued a statement saying: \u2018The parliamentary session is devoid of legal basis. There has been an attempted coup d\u2019etat. The president of the republic remains fully in office and is ensuring the maintenance of constitutional order and national stability.\u2019<\/h4>\nIt is not clear from where he made this statement.<\/h4>\nAs we noted in our detailed update yesterday<\/a>, Rajoelina had been scheduled to address the nation in a broadcast which was postponed three times yesterday evening.<\/h4>\nBut shortly before midnight, he made a broadcast not on national Malagasy television, as had been announced, but on the president\u2019s Facebook Live account, and VIVA.<\/h4>\nIn his address, he gave no indication of his whereabouts, but said he had been \u2018forced into hiding\u2019 because of \u2018threats made against my life<\/em>\u2019.<\/h4>\nIt is almost certain that Rajoelina left Madagascar on Sunday (12th<\/sup> October) following protests and demonstrations across the country which had begun on Thursday 25th<\/sup> September in Antananarivo.<\/h4>\nThese demonstrations, led by young Malagasy people under the name \u2018Gen Z Madagascar\u2019 were first against continual long-lasting power and water cuts, but soon grew into protests against human rights violations, alleged corruption, poverty and low living standards in Madagascar.<\/h4>\nRajoelina\u2019s government and security forces reacted strongly to the protests, attempting to ban all demonstrations, then using tear gas, rubber bullets and baton charges against protestors, and in the first few days \u2013 in which demonstrations took place across the country \u2013 the UN reported that 22 people had been killed.<\/h4>\nThe protests continued, and on Sunday, a day after CAPSAT announced it was backing the protestors, Madagascar Aviation reports that Rajoelina\u2019s helicopter left the presidential palace and landed on Sainte Marie island, Eastern Madagascar. A few minutes later, Madagascar Aviation\u2019s Facebook page reports, he boarded a French military aircraft to Reunion.<\/h4>\nFrom there he is reported to have flown to Dubai, though it is not known whether this was his final destination, or another stopover.<\/h4>\nFrench president Emmanuel Macron has still not confirmed this version of events, however.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Protestors, including Gen Z Madagascar on its social media pages, celebrated today\u2019s CAPSAT announcement, though some expressed concern about the military\u2019s longer-term intentions.<\/h4>\n
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Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. A unit of the Malagasy army has claimed it has \u2018taken power\u2019 in Madagascar. The CAPSAT unit, which on Saturday (11 October 2025) announced it was joining protests against the Malagasy government and president Andry Rajoelina, saying it would not \u2018follow illegal orders\u2019 to \u2018shoot our brothers and sisters\u2019 (the demonstrators) made the announcement today. CAPSAT (Corps d\u2019administration des personnels et des services administratifs et techniques) leader, Colonel Michael Randrianirina, announced to reporters in Antananarivo that the Malagasy military will form a \u2018council\u2019 of officers from the army,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":23157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,235,429,430,187,188,621,432],"tags":[667,655,666,400,115,205,664,665,663,436,657],"class_list":["post-23153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antananarivo","category-community","category-france","category-macron","category-madagascar","category-malagasy","category-power","category-rajoelina","tag-army","tag-capsat","tag-elections","tag-government","tag-madagascar","tag-malagasy","tag-military","tag-president","tag-protests","tag-rajoelina","tag-randrianirina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23158,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions\/23158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Despite these statements, CAPSAT has announced that it has suspended all Malagasy constitutional institutions, including the senate (whose head would, under the Malagasy constitution, ordinarily take over the roles of the president and organise an election for a new president to be elected), the constitutional court and the electoral commission.<\/h4>\nTaking questions after the statement, he told an Agence-France Presse reporter: \u2018We have taken power.<\/em>\u2019<\/h4>\nAnd although Randrianirina \u2013 who appears now to be the de facto head of the Malagasy state \u2013 said that Gen Z Madagascar would be included in the new Malagasy government, he said that there will be no immediate elections, instead saying: \u2018We will form a government, and reach consensus. Elections will happen in the next 18 months to two years.<\/em><\/h4>\n\u2018We had no choice,\u2019 he added. \u2018There is no president, there is no government. Nothing here works.<\/em>\u2019<\/h4>\nRandrianirina\u2019s statements were made soon after the Malagasy parliament\u2019s lower house \u2013 including Rajoelina\u2019s own party IRMAR \u2013 had voted to impeach Rajoelina, though he denied its right to do so, saying he had dissolved parliament hours before.<\/h4>\nThe Malagasy presidential Facebook account issued a statement saying: \u2018The parliamentary session is devoid of legal basis. There has been an attempted coup d\u2019etat. The president of the republic remains fully in office and is ensuring the maintenance of constitutional order and national stability.\u2019<\/h4>\nIt is not clear from where he made this statement.<\/h4>\nAs we noted in our detailed update yesterday<\/a>, Rajoelina had been scheduled to address the nation in a broadcast which was postponed three times yesterday evening.<\/h4>\nBut shortly before midnight, he made a broadcast not on national Malagasy television, as had been announced, but on the president\u2019s Facebook Live account, and VIVA.<\/h4>\nIn his address, he gave no indication of his whereabouts, but said he had been \u2018forced into hiding\u2019 because of \u2018threats made against my life<\/em>\u2019.<\/h4>\nIt is almost certain that Rajoelina left Madagascar on Sunday (12th<\/sup> October) following protests and demonstrations across the country which had begun on Thursday 25th<\/sup> September in Antananarivo.<\/h4>\nThese demonstrations, led by young Malagasy people under the name \u2018Gen Z Madagascar\u2019 were first against continual long-lasting power and water cuts, but soon grew into protests against human rights violations, alleged corruption, poverty and low living standards in Madagascar.<\/h4>\nRajoelina\u2019s government and security forces reacted strongly to the protests, attempting to ban all demonstrations, then using tear gas, rubber bullets and baton charges against protestors, and in the first few days \u2013 in which demonstrations took place across the country \u2013 the UN reported that 22 people had been killed.<\/h4>\nThe protests continued, and on Sunday, a day after CAPSAT announced it was backing the protestors, Madagascar Aviation reports that Rajoelina\u2019s helicopter left the presidential palace and landed on Sainte Marie island, Eastern Madagascar. A few minutes later, Madagascar Aviation\u2019s Facebook page reports, he boarded a French military aircraft to Reunion.<\/h4>\nFrom there he is reported to have flown to Dubai, though it is not known whether this was his final destination, or another stopover.<\/h4>\nFrench president Emmanuel Macron has still not confirmed this version of events, however.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Protestors, including Gen Z Madagascar on its social media pages, celebrated today\u2019s CAPSAT announcement, though some expressed concern about the military\u2019s longer-term intentions.<\/h4>\n
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Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. A unit of the Malagasy army has claimed it has \u2018taken power\u2019 in Madagascar. The CAPSAT unit, which on Saturday (11 October 2025) announced it was joining protests against the Malagasy government and president Andry Rajoelina, saying it would not \u2018follow illegal orders\u2019 to \u2018shoot our brothers and sisters\u2019 (the demonstrators) made the announcement today. CAPSAT (Corps d\u2019administration des personnels et des services administratifs et techniques) leader, Colonel Michael Randrianirina, announced to reporters in Antananarivo that the Malagasy military will form a \u2018council\u2019 of officers from the army,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":23157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,235,429,430,187,188,621,432],"tags":[667,655,666,400,115,205,664,665,663,436,657],"class_list":["post-23153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antananarivo","category-community","category-france","category-macron","category-madagascar","category-malagasy","category-power","category-rajoelina","tag-army","tag-capsat","tag-elections","tag-government","tag-madagascar","tag-malagasy","tag-military","tag-president","tag-protests","tag-rajoelina","tag-randrianirina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23158,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions\/23158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
And although Randrianirina \u2013 who appears now to be the de facto head of the Malagasy state \u2013 said that Gen Z Madagascar would be included in the new Malagasy government, he said that there will be no immediate elections, instead saying: \u2018We will form a government, and reach consensus. Elections will happen in the next 18 months to two years.<\/em><\/h4>\n\u2018We had no choice,\u2019 he added. \u2018There is no president, there is no government. Nothing here works.<\/em>\u2019<\/h4>\nRandrianirina\u2019s statements were made soon after the Malagasy parliament\u2019s lower house \u2013 including Rajoelina\u2019s own party IRMAR \u2013 had voted to impeach Rajoelina, though he denied its right to do so, saying he had dissolved parliament hours before.<\/h4>\nThe Malagasy presidential Facebook account issued a statement saying: \u2018The parliamentary session is devoid of legal basis. There has been an attempted coup d\u2019etat. The president of the republic remains fully in office and is ensuring the maintenance of constitutional order and national stability.\u2019<\/h4>\nIt is not clear from where he made this statement.<\/h4>\nAs we noted in our detailed update yesterday<\/a>, Rajoelina had been scheduled to address the nation in a broadcast which was postponed three times yesterday evening.<\/h4>\nBut shortly before midnight, he made a broadcast not on national Malagasy television, as had been announced, but on the president\u2019s Facebook Live account, and VIVA.<\/h4>\nIn his address, he gave no indication of his whereabouts, but said he had been \u2018forced into hiding\u2019 because of \u2018threats made against my life<\/em>\u2019.<\/h4>\nIt is almost certain that Rajoelina left Madagascar on Sunday (12th<\/sup> October) following protests and demonstrations across the country which had begun on Thursday 25th<\/sup> September in Antananarivo.<\/h4>\nThese demonstrations, led by young Malagasy people under the name \u2018Gen Z Madagascar\u2019 were first against continual long-lasting power and water cuts, but soon grew into protests against human rights violations, alleged corruption, poverty and low living standards in Madagascar.<\/h4>\nRajoelina\u2019s government and security forces reacted strongly to the protests, attempting to ban all demonstrations, then using tear gas, rubber bullets and baton charges against protestors, and in the first few days \u2013 in which demonstrations took place across the country \u2013 the UN reported that 22 people had been killed.<\/h4>\nThe protests continued, and on Sunday, a day after CAPSAT announced it was backing the protestors, Madagascar Aviation reports that Rajoelina\u2019s helicopter left the presidential palace and landed on Sainte Marie island, Eastern Madagascar. A few minutes later, Madagascar Aviation\u2019s Facebook page reports, he boarded a French military aircraft to Reunion.<\/h4>\nFrom there he is reported to have flown to Dubai, though it is not known whether this was his final destination, or another stopover.<\/h4>\nFrench president Emmanuel Macron has still not confirmed this version of events, however.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Protestors, including Gen Z Madagascar on its social media pages, celebrated today\u2019s CAPSAT announcement, though some expressed concern about the military\u2019s longer-term intentions.<\/h4>\n
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Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. A unit of the Malagasy army has claimed it has \u2018taken power\u2019 in Madagascar. The CAPSAT unit, which on Saturday (11 October 2025) announced it was joining protests against the Malagasy government and president Andry Rajoelina, saying it would not \u2018follow illegal orders\u2019 to \u2018shoot our brothers and sisters\u2019 (the demonstrators) made the announcement today. CAPSAT (Corps d\u2019administration des personnels et des services administratifs et techniques) leader, Colonel Michael Randrianirina, announced to reporters in Antananarivo that the Malagasy military will form a \u2018council\u2019 of officers from the army,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":23157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,235,429,430,187,188,621,432],"tags":[667,655,666,400,115,205,664,665,663,436,657],"class_list":["post-23153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antananarivo","category-community","category-france","category-macron","category-madagascar","category-malagasy","category-power","category-rajoelina","tag-army","tag-capsat","tag-elections","tag-government","tag-madagascar","tag-malagasy","tag-military","tag-president","tag-protests","tag-rajoelina","tag-randrianirina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23158,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions\/23158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Randrianirina\u2019s statements were made soon after the Malagasy parliament\u2019s lower house \u2013 including Rajoelina\u2019s own party IRMAR \u2013 had voted to impeach Rajoelina, though he denied its right to do so, saying he had dissolved parliament hours before.<\/h4>\nThe Malagasy presidential Facebook account issued a statement saying: \u2018The parliamentary session is devoid of legal basis. There has been an attempted coup d\u2019etat. The president of the republic remains fully in office and is ensuring the maintenance of constitutional order and national stability.\u2019<\/h4>\nIt is not clear from where he made this statement.<\/h4>\nAs we noted in our detailed update yesterday<\/a>, Rajoelina had been scheduled to address the nation in a broadcast which was postponed three times yesterday evening.<\/h4>\nBut shortly before midnight, he made a broadcast not on national Malagasy television, as had been announced, but on the president\u2019s Facebook Live account, and VIVA.<\/h4>\nIn his address, he gave no indication of his whereabouts, but said he had been \u2018forced into hiding\u2019 because of \u2018threats made against my life<\/em>\u2019.<\/h4>\nIt is almost certain that Rajoelina left Madagascar on Sunday (12th<\/sup> October) following protests and demonstrations across the country which had begun on Thursday 25th<\/sup> September in Antananarivo.<\/h4>\nThese demonstrations, led by young Malagasy people under the name \u2018Gen Z Madagascar\u2019 were first against continual long-lasting power and water cuts, but soon grew into protests against human rights violations, alleged corruption, poverty and low living standards in Madagascar.<\/h4>\nRajoelina\u2019s government and security forces reacted strongly to the protests, attempting to ban all demonstrations, then using tear gas, rubber bullets and baton charges against protestors, and in the first few days \u2013 in which demonstrations took place across the country \u2013 the UN reported that 22 people had been killed.<\/h4>\nThe protests continued, and on Sunday, a day after CAPSAT announced it was backing the protestors, Madagascar Aviation reports that Rajoelina\u2019s helicopter left the presidential palace and landed on Sainte Marie island, Eastern Madagascar. A few minutes later, Madagascar Aviation\u2019s Facebook page reports, he boarded a French military aircraft to Reunion.<\/h4>\nFrom there he is reported to have flown to Dubai, though it is not known whether this was his final destination, or another stopover.<\/h4>\nFrench president Emmanuel Macron has still not confirmed this version of events, however.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Protestors, including Gen Z Madagascar on its social media pages, celebrated today\u2019s CAPSAT announcement, though some expressed concern about the military\u2019s longer-term intentions.<\/h4>\n
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Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. A unit of the Malagasy army has claimed it has \u2018taken power\u2019 in Madagascar. The CAPSAT unit, which on Saturday (11 October 2025) announced it was joining protests against the Malagasy government and president Andry Rajoelina, saying it would not \u2018follow illegal orders\u2019 to \u2018shoot our brothers and sisters\u2019 (the demonstrators) made the announcement today. CAPSAT (Corps d\u2019administration des personnels et des services administratifs et techniques) leader, Colonel Michael Randrianirina, announced to reporters in Antananarivo that the Malagasy military will form a \u2018council\u2019 of officers from the army,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":23157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,235,429,430,187,188,621,432],"tags":[667,655,666,400,115,205,664,665,663,436,657],"class_list":["post-23153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antananarivo","category-community","category-france","category-macron","category-madagascar","category-malagasy","category-power","category-rajoelina","tag-army","tag-capsat","tag-elections","tag-government","tag-madagascar","tag-malagasy","tag-military","tag-president","tag-protests","tag-rajoelina","tag-randrianirina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23158,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions\/23158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
It is not clear from where he made this statement.<\/h4>\nAs we noted in our detailed update yesterday<\/a>, Rajoelina had been scheduled to address the nation in a broadcast which was postponed three times yesterday evening.<\/h4>\nBut shortly before midnight, he made a broadcast not on national Malagasy television, as had been announced, but on the president\u2019s Facebook Live account, and VIVA.<\/h4>\nIn his address, he gave no indication of his whereabouts, but said he had been \u2018forced into hiding\u2019 because of \u2018threats made against my life<\/em>\u2019.<\/h4>\nIt is almost certain that Rajoelina left Madagascar on Sunday (12th<\/sup> October) following protests and demonstrations across the country which had begun on Thursday 25th<\/sup> September in Antananarivo.<\/h4>\nThese demonstrations, led by young Malagasy people under the name \u2018Gen Z Madagascar\u2019 were first against continual long-lasting power and water cuts, but soon grew into protests against human rights violations, alleged corruption, poverty and low living standards in Madagascar.<\/h4>\nRajoelina\u2019s government and security forces reacted strongly to the protests, attempting to ban all demonstrations, then using tear gas, rubber bullets and baton charges against protestors, and in the first few days \u2013 in which demonstrations took place across the country \u2013 the UN reported that 22 people had been killed.<\/h4>\nThe protests continued, and on Sunday, a day after CAPSAT announced it was backing the protestors, Madagascar Aviation reports that Rajoelina\u2019s helicopter left the presidential palace and landed on Sainte Marie island, Eastern Madagascar. A few minutes later, Madagascar Aviation\u2019s Facebook page reports, he boarded a French military aircraft to Reunion.<\/h4>\nFrom there he is reported to have flown to Dubai, though it is not known whether this was his final destination, or another stopover.<\/h4>\nFrench president Emmanuel Macron has still not confirmed this version of events, however.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Protestors, including Gen Z Madagascar on its social media pages, celebrated today\u2019s CAPSAT announcement, though some expressed concern about the military\u2019s longer-term intentions.<\/h4>\n
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Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. A unit of the Malagasy army has claimed it has \u2018taken power\u2019 in Madagascar. The CAPSAT unit, which on Saturday (11 October 2025) announced it was joining protests against the Malagasy government and president Andry Rajoelina, saying it would not \u2018follow illegal orders\u2019 to \u2018shoot our brothers and sisters\u2019 (the demonstrators) made the announcement today. CAPSAT (Corps d\u2019administration des personnels et des services administratifs et techniques) leader, Colonel Michael Randrianirina, announced to reporters in Antananarivo that the Malagasy military will form a \u2018council\u2019 of officers from the army,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":23157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,235,429,430,187,188,621,432],"tags":[667,655,666,400,115,205,664,665,663,436,657],"class_list":["post-23153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antananarivo","category-community","category-france","category-macron","category-madagascar","category-malagasy","category-power","category-rajoelina","tag-army","tag-capsat","tag-elections","tag-government","tag-madagascar","tag-malagasy","tag-military","tag-president","tag-protests","tag-rajoelina","tag-randrianirina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23158,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions\/23158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
But shortly before midnight, he made a broadcast not on national Malagasy television, as had been announced, but on the president\u2019s Facebook Live account, and VIVA.<\/h4>\nIn his address, he gave no indication of his whereabouts, but said he had been \u2018forced into hiding\u2019 because of \u2018threats made against my life<\/em>\u2019.<\/h4>\nIt is almost certain that Rajoelina left Madagascar on Sunday (12th<\/sup> October) following protests and demonstrations across the country which had begun on Thursday 25th<\/sup> September in Antananarivo.<\/h4>\nThese demonstrations, led by young Malagasy people under the name \u2018Gen Z Madagascar\u2019 were first against continual long-lasting power and water cuts, but soon grew into protests against human rights violations, alleged corruption, poverty and low living standards in Madagascar.<\/h4>\nRajoelina\u2019s government and security forces reacted strongly to the protests, attempting to ban all demonstrations, then using tear gas, rubber bullets and baton charges against protestors, and in the first few days \u2013 in which demonstrations took place across the country \u2013 the UN reported that 22 people had been killed.<\/h4>\nThe protests continued, and on Sunday, a day after CAPSAT announced it was backing the protestors, Madagascar Aviation reports that Rajoelina\u2019s helicopter left the presidential palace and landed on Sainte Marie island, Eastern Madagascar. A few minutes later, Madagascar Aviation\u2019s Facebook page reports, he boarded a French military aircraft to Reunion.<\/h4>\nFrom there he is reported to have flown to Dubai, though it is not known whether this was his final destination, or another stopover.<\/h4>\nFrench president Emmanuel Macron has still not confirmed this version of events, however.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Protestors, including Gen Z Madagascar on its social media pages, celebrated today\u2019s CAPSAT announcement, though some expressed concern about the military\u2019s longer-term intentions.<\/h4>\n
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Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. A unit of the Malagasy army has claimed it has \u2018taken power\u2019 in Madagascar. The CAPSAT unit, which on Saturday (11 October 2025) announced it was joining protests against the Malagasy government and president Andry Rajoelina, saying it would not \u2018follow illegal orders\u2019 to \u2018shoot our brothers and sisters\u2019 (the demonstrators) made the announcement today. CAPSAT (Corps d\u2019administration des personnels et des services administratifs et techniques) leader, Colonel Michael Randrianirina, announced to reporters in Antananarivo that the Malagasy military will form a \u2018council\u2019 of officers from the army,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":23157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,235,429,430,187,188,621,432],"tags":[667,655,666,400,115,205,664,665,663,436,657],"class_list":["post-23153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antananarivo","category-community","category-france","category-macron","category-madagascar","category-malagasy","category-power","category-rajoelina","tag-army","tag-capsat","tag-elections","tag-government","tag-madagascar","tag-malagasy","tag-military","tag-president","tag-protests","tag-rajoelina","tag-randrianirina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23158,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions\/23158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
It is almost certain that Rajoelina left Madagascar on Sunday (12th<\/sup> October) following protests and demonstrations across the country which had begun on Thursday 25th<\/sup> September in Antananarivo.<\/h4>\nThese demonstrations, led by young Malagasy people under the name \u2018Gen Z Madagascar\u2019 were first against continual long-lasting power and water cuts, but soon grew into protests against human rights violations, alleged corruption, poverty and low living standards in Madagascar.<\/h4>\nRajoelina\u2019s government and security forces reacted strongly to the protests, attempting to ban all demonstrations, then using tear gas, rubber bullets and baton charges against protestors, and in the first few days \u2013 in which demonstrations took place across the country \u2013 the UN reported that 22 people had been killed.<\/h4>\nThe protests continued, and on Sunday, a day after CAPSAT announced it was backing the protestors, Madagascar Aviation reports that Rajoelina\u2019s helicopter left the presidential palace and landed on Sainte Marie island, Eastern Madagascar. A few minutes later, Madagascar Aviation\u2019s Facebook page reports, he boarded a French military aircraft to Reunion.<\/h4>\nFrom there he is reported to have flown to Dubai, though it is not known whether this was his final destination, or another stopover.<\/h4>\nFrench president Emmanuel Macron has still not confirmed this version of events, however.<\/h4>\n
<\/p>\n
Protestors, including Gen Z Madagascar on its social media pages, celebrated today\u2019s CAPSAT announcement, though some expressed concern about the military\u2019s longer-term intentions.<\/h4>\n
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Miala tsiny fa tsy mbola misy amin’ny teny malagasy ity lahatsoratra ity. A unit of the Malagasy army has claimed it has \u2018taken power\u2019 in Madagascar. The CAPSAT unit, which on Saturday (11 October 2025) announced it was joining protests against the Malagasy government and president Andry Rajoelina, saying it would not \u2018follow illegal orders\u2019 to \u2018shoot our brothers and sisters\u2019 (the demonstrators) made the announcement today. CAPSAT (Corps d\u2019administration des personnels et des services administratifs et techniques) leader, Colonel Michael Randrianirina, announced to reporters in Antananarivo that the Malagasy military will form a \u2018council\u2019 of officers from the army,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":23157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,235,429,430,187,188,621,432],"tags":[667,655,666,400,115,205,664,665,663,436,657],"class_list":["post-23153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antananarivo","category-community","category-france","category-macron","category-madagascar","category-malagasy","category-power","category-rajoelina","tag-army","tag-capsat","tag-elections","tag-government","tag-madagascar","tag-malagasy","tag-military","tag-president","tag-protests","tag-rajoelina","tag-randrianirina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23158,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions\/23158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyformadagascar.org\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Rajoelina\u2019s government and security forces reacted strongly to the protests, attempting to ban all demonstrations, then using tear gas, rubber bullets and baton charges against protestors, and in the first few days \u2013 in which demonstrations took place across the country \u2013 the UN reported that 22 people had been killed.<\/h4>\nThe protests continued, and on Sunday, a day after CAPSAT announced it was backing the protestors, Madagascar Aviation reports that Rajoelina\u2019s helicopter left the presidential palace and landed on Sainte Marie island, Eastern Madagascar. A few minutes later, Madagascar Aviation\u2019s Facebook page reports, he boarded a French military aircraft to Reunion.<\/h4>\nFrom there he is reported to have flown to Dubai, though it is not known whether this was his final destination, or another stopover.<\/h4>\nFrench president Emmanuel Macron has still not confirmed this version of events, however.<\/h4>\n
From there he is reported to have flown to Dubai, though it is not known whether this was his final destination, or another stopover.<\/h4>\nFrench president Emmanuel Macron has still not confirmed this version of events, however.<\/h4>\n
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