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Population: 21.3 mn.
GDP: 8.8 bn.
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With French and South African help, Andry Rajoelina will push ahead with his plans to win national elections and sideline ousted president and yoghurt magnate Marc Ravalomanana, despite growing criticism of his business methods and corrupt networks.

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  • Vol 52 No 19
  •  23rd September 2011

Rajoelina agrees a deal

Andry ‘TGV’ Rajoelina was prepared to compromise once he thought Ravalomanana no longer represented an electoral threat

  • Vol 52 No 19
  •  23rd September 2011

International concerns

The new settlement, unratified, uncertain and flawed though it is, will find strong support from international organisations anxious to deal with a worsening humanitarian situation and to reverse the years of economic contraction. Real gross domestic prod...

  • Vol 52 No 1
  •  7th January 2011

A permanent putsch

Foreigners disapprove but Andry TGV Rajoelina wants to be president and the voters may agree

  • Vol 51 No 24
  •  3rd December 2010

The next revolt

The curious rebellion on 17 November by a score of soldiers was defused when the rebels, who had been surrounded, surrendered peacefully. No military units had joined them; eleven officers have been detained and a leading judge, Raymond Ranjeva, stands ac...

  • Vol 51 No 11
  •  28th May 2010

An unconvincing egotist

Putsch leader Andry Rajoelina says he won’t stand in the forthcoming elections – but for some reason no one believes him

  • Vol 50 No 20
  •  8th October 2009

Old hat, new hat

The choice of academic Eugène Mangalaza as Prime Minister after a marathon meeting in Antananarivo on 6 October has broken the deadlock over the make-up of the new interim government, which is to run Madagascar until elections in 15 months' time. B...

  • Vol 50 No 14
  •  10th July 2009

Go on, negotiate

While Madagascar's ousted President Marc Ravalomanana stews in South Africa, the youthful transition leader Andry Rajoelina has been in Belgium, vainly trying to persuade the European Union to restore its aid. Talks on 6 July with an EU team headed by Swe...

  • Vol 50 No 7
  •  3rd April 2009

One nation, two conferences

The opening of a national conference in Antananarivo on 2 April, led by Andry Rajoelina, head of the Haute Autorité de la Transition, is likely to worsen political divisions. Its goal is to draw up plans to return the country to constitutional rule and ho...

  • Vol 50 No 6
  •  20th March 2009

'Andry TGV' takes over

After the crisis that led to 135 deaths and the resignation of President Ravalomanana, the new young chief will have to meet many aspirations

  • Vol 50 No 3
  •  6th February 2009

Politics curdle for the Yoghurt King

Antananarivo's young Mayor challenges the business-friendly President

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