Marc Ravalomanana

On 17 August the Southern African Development Community failed in its third attempt to reconcile feuding Presidents Marc Ravalomanana and Andry Rajoelina...

• Marc Ravalomanana 62 elected President in 2002 and 2006 was overthrown by a coup d’état in March 2009...

While ex-President Marc Ravalomanana’s supporters approve of the sanctions most others think them counter-productive because they do not hit the greedy elite whose interests are served by the transitional government...

Exiled ex-President Marc Ravalomanana currently lives in South Africa...

No sooner had interim leader Andry Rajoelina agreed to terms that included the return of the exiled Marc Ravalomanana than senior figures in the governing Haute Autorité de la Transition (HAT) were threatening to arrest the former President...

When the military overthrew President Marc Ravalomanana and installed Andry Rajoelina in March 2009 contributing countries were initially reluctant to reduce their economic support because of Madagascar’s poverty and heavy dependence on aid...

Foreign aid is declining as donors withhold the release of funds in an effort to nudge Rajoelina towards a compromise with his deposed predecessor President Marc Ravalomanana and the latter’s nominal allies the veteran ex-Presidents Albert Zafy and Didier Ratsiraka...

HAT is pushing for elections before the end of this year and Rajoelina who overthrew the government of Marc Ravalomanana in 2009 sounds ever more confident...

Rajoelina who seized power with army support in March 2009 needs money to fight presidential elections due in mid-year which are shaping up to be a bitter confrontation with desposed President Marc Ravalomanana and several other candidates...

Rajoelina is pressuring his rivals including former Presidents Marc Ravalomanana Albert Zafy and Didier Ratsiraka into accepting the presidential elections that the regime plans for mid-year...

Colonel Charles Andrianasoavina claims the March 2009 events leading to the fall of Marc Ravalomanana’s government were a coup d’etat not a popular uprising...