Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina’s office on Monday announced he’s due to make a big speech on national television at 7 PM local time while kind of leaving out that he’s not actually in the nation, let alone specify which other nation he’s currently holed up in, the AP reports.
Rajoelina, who was installed in 2009 by Madagascar’s elite CAPSTAT military unit amid massive civil unrest, is believed to have been evacuated by French commandos sent by President Emmanuel Macron amid massive civil unrest the led to his uninstallation by the Madagascar’s elite CAPSTAT military unit. CAPSAT commander Colonel Michael Randrianirina said his men were responding to the people’s calls for intervention when they shot a bunch of security forces who had been firing on protestors in the capital city of Antananarivo. The drama capped weeks of often violent clashes between protestors and government forces over constant electricity and water outages, driven by a group calling themselves “Gen Z Madagascar” whose leaders say they were inspired and motivated by the successful recent collapses of incompetent governments in Sri Lanka and Nepal.