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Andry Nirina Rajoelina (Andry TGV)

Date of Birth: 30 May 1974


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Gen Z redraws the power map

It was the military's backing for the Gen Z protests against President Andry Rajoelina that forced him to flee aboard a French military jet on 12 October...

ANDRY RAJOELINA – OUSTED BY HIS FORMER PROMOTERS President Andry Rajoelina's default political mode was always one of style over substance...


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Gen Z’s military man Randrianirina takes the oath

Randrianirina the head of Madagascar's elite Army Corps of Personnel and Administrative and Technical Services (known as CAPSAT) was sworn in as president by the High Constitutional Court on 17 October seven days after he led the putsch that ousted Andry Rajoelina who has since fled to France...

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Randrianirina out of the shadows

Randrianirina would not be president without the Generation Z protesters who took to the streets for more than a month eventually forcing the impeachment of President Andry Rajoelina...


Paris all at sea over Africa reset

Three weeks later that strategy was interrupted by Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina stating his desire to visit the almost uninhabited archipelago a move calculated to boost Malagasy support for its ownership claim...


Economy under the weather

The tense relationship between the two parties was further strained in July when authorities searched the company's offices as part of investigations into an apparent coup attempt against President Andry Rajoelina...


Pandemic mysteries multiply

This will not have been good news for the marketers of President Andry Rajoelina's favoured Covid-Organics herbal remedy that he had been heralding as the cure for coronavirus...


Second-round grudge match

The second round of the Madagascar presidential election on 19 December promises to be a hard fight between two sworn enemies: Marc Ravalomanana who led the country from 2002-09 and Andry Rajoelina the man who deposed him in a coup...


Big men bid high for the top job

Only three stand a serious chance of election all of whom have previously held the country's highest office: Hery Rajaonarimampianina the incumbent; Marc Ravalomanana president from 2002 until a coup in 2009; and Andry Rajoelina who led that coup and remained president until elections in 2013...

If rallies media coverage and razzamatazz are reliable indicators of popular support then it is the man who deposed Ravalomanana Andry Rajoelina who will assume power in January...


Polls code sparks crisis

Joining Ravalomanana's Tiako i Madagasikara (TIM) in the protests is the eponymous Miaraka Amin'i Prezida Andry Rajoelina (MAPAR) the party of Ravalomanana's nemesis who led the 2009 coup...

Although Ravalomanana and Andry Rajoelina remain implacable enemies the two former presidents see a need for their parties to present a united front against HVM and the advantages that incumbency confers – the latest of which helped parachute HVM's President Rivo Rakotovao into position as the President of the Senate...


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