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Civil servants’ unions and their ministerial crisis time cell are firmly intending to launch a general strike on July 11th. On this very day, a leader of the paramedics’ union is equally supposed to be trialed. Valerien Rakotonandrasana was arrested by the police forces one week earlier, held in custody and then temporarily released. Lire la suite »

Some political groups and some foreign diplomats do suggest a presidential race without Ravalomanana and without Rajoelina as the solution to the Malagasy crisis. Professor Raymond Ranjeva thinks different. As far as he is concerned, both decision makers must be forced to run the upcoming presidential election and let the nation decide. The former juge of the international court of the Hague compares the current political conflict in Madagascar to a football match. Raymond Ranjeva believes that the time to proceed with penalty kick out has come. Lire la suite »

Their visit may not specifically be focusing on the Madagascan crisis, but some members of U.S. American Congress spending this weekend in Madagascar are quite likely to address the issue. Their mission concerns first and foremost the program aimed at strengthening parliamentary cooperation between both nations. Meetings namely with the local transitional congress’ President as well as with the formal national unity Prime Minister, Omer Beriziky are being scheduled. Lire la suite »

Quite a slovenly drafted statement from Andry Rajoelina’s clique finally presented the transitional leader’s and young putsch maker’s reluctance to discuss with the exiled president, Marc Ravalomanana. The SADC was pushing of two party talks between the main wire pullers in the Malagasy political crisis, but the show does not capitalize. Rajoelina definitely does its best to skirt around direct negotiations with Marc Ravalomanana. Lire la suite »

No matter how much the transitional parliament runs out of money, a special twelve days long session started on July 2nd. Parliamentarians are in for addressing the code supposed to dictate the rules of engagement in the next elections in Madagascar. Lire la suite »

During June 26th’s National Day, the armed forces were parading inside the stadium of Mahamasina while Remenabila, the leader of the dahalo keeps on mocking them in the south. Since the latest couple of weeks, hundreds of soldiers have been mobilizing in the southern part of Madagascar to track the invisible man down. The safari is everything but over but chances to find Remenabila are not that many. On June 28th, he threatened to raid the state police’s headquarters near the town of Fort Dauphin (southeast) and caused widespread panic by the same way. The war equally happens to be psychological as a matter of fact. Lire la suite »

Civil servants’ unions jointly assessed on June 27th the general situation of civil servants and confirmed as a result the beginning of a general strike as a warning to the ruling power. From July 2nd on, the administration is likely to fail from working the normal way. The will of the transitional power is being more and more challenged and its trick deemed to divide the rising front, proving to be useless. Lire la suite »

The SADC’s permanent office in Antananarivo is preparing the summit deemed to take place between former President Marc Ravalomanana and the current head of the transition, Andry Rajoelina. Local representatives of the SADC will be getting in touch with the other groups which signed the roadmap for ending the crisis, and keep on consulting the other main decision makers in the Malagasy political crisis. Lire la suite »

Antananarivo has been completely disrupted by chronic traffic jam on Friday morning, June 22nd. The army had to conduct its rehearsal in order to parade on the National Day on June, 26th, no matter the traffic usually swarming in the capital city center. Lire la suite »

The civil servants’ unions and crisis time centers recently erected in each ministerial department will be in for a general warning strike on June 27th, 28th and 29th. On the day after the Independence Day, not a single public office will be opened Lire la suite »