News flash

Marc Ravalomanana and Andry Rajoelina have both left the Seychelles, on which the SADC organized head to head talks. Negotiations related to the implementation of the roadmap came to an end and obviously proved nearly impossible, for common ground between both main leaders in the Malagasy crisis used to be nonsense from scratch. James Michel, the islands’ President and the meeting’s host brilliantly contributed to this attempt to reconcile both adversaries. Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa, equally travelled to the Seychelles in order to provide his “support” to the process, according to his own say in a message over Twitter Lire la suite »

Political observers have been noticing an unusual complacency between Andry Rajoelina’s clique and Marius Fransman, South African vice minister and the current SADC mediator, during the latest months. He has recently joined the Seychelles to mediate talks between the main wire pullers in this Malagasy political crisis, to the Rajoelina supportive newsgroups’ unexpected liking. All the other ones merely reported the fact quite neutrally. A mere coincidence? Lire la suite »

The Malagasy armed forces carefully keeps on keeping details secret concerning the corporal Kotomainty’s death circumstances. He, who lead a paratroopers’ uprising attempt and entrenched himself inside his own captured base camp on July, 22nd, would have been executed when entering the military hospital’s emergency department, according to independent sources. The army itself did not confirm the information, did however not emphatically deny it either. Reporters having attended the scene witnessed a Corporal Black being taken away, wounded but quite alive. He could logically not have fallen earlier during the shootout. His death was however announced by army officials on the national TV channel waves as a direct result of Sunday’s clashes. Further details are definitely not revealed by the armed forces. Lire la suite »

They confirmed it in the Magro square, in which the former president’s supporters gather nearly on a daily basis. The main wire pullers in this political crisis are going to meet next week in the Seychelles, on Tuesday, July 24th. Lire la suite »

The former Malagasy president would be trialed in South Africa in the case of February 7th. Merely a way to deflect the attention according to the Ravalomanana sphere’s Benja Andriamihanta. Lire la suite »

War seems definitely declared between the unions of Malagasy civil servants and leaders of the Transition. The unions’ wrath was caused by the Andry Rajoelina’s threat to suspend the striking workers’ wages and, if need be, to fire them. Lire la suite »

The leader of the transition, Andry Rajoelina, no longer makes a secret of his anger towards the striking civil servants. The threat of depriving them from wages did not work as expected; stubborn workers are now threatened of being fired once for all Lire la suite »

Leaders of the ongoing strikes are considered like criminals by the High Authority of Transition, as a matter of fact. Union leaders are actually being ordered to join the police station and charged with crime against state security. These are leaders in the trade unions of practitioners and paramedics. These unions have been striking for a short while so far. Lire la suite »

The Presidency of the High Authority of Transition boils up. The Homeland Security’s boss, superintendent Charly Nakany, was sacked and replaced by his deputy, the superintendent Harison Olivier. This department serving the controversial presidency served as political police, duty of which was the protection of Andry Rajoelina and his senior staff. Lire la suite »

The various strikes triggered by various trade unions do intensely annoy the transitional power. Union leaders declared that they would have got entitled to death threats along the latest days. Lire la suite »