Politics

The prospect of welcoming military envoys from the SADC in Antananarivo does not comfort the HAT and its allies. Would the settlement so much orbit around the security forces, that the regional organization feels compelled to lead them back to the neutrality path? Lire la suite »

The document signed in Ivato is a roadmap actually far from leading to any settlement of the crisis. These rules of engagement in the transition are no match for the heap of contradicting interpretations. There is in the end still a very long way to go prior to reaching any shadow of common ground, namely on the highly sensitive power sharing issue. Lire la suite »

After the signing of the roadmap on September 17h, 2011 in Antanetibe-Ivato, the political crisis has come up to the HAT´s efforts to keep ruling the ousted president Marc Ravalomanana out and to keep in control. The SADC put its foot in it when daring a pointless and even more confusing explanation of the article 20. Many articles are, besides, requiring precisions prior to the erection of a genuine transition. Lire la suite »

The roadmap´s signing process supposed to restore political appeasement turns out to be a new cause for tension. The HAT issued a new arrest warrant against the president in exile Marc Ravalomanana. An interpretation of the roadmap´s article 20 is used by Andry Rajoelina to defend the gains of the year 2009´s putsch. Lire la suite »

The ceremony started at 23:30 local time on September 16th; the signed roadmap might well not be the decisive settlement of the crisis in Madagascar, but for sure a good starting point. The issue related to Marc Ravalomanana´s recovery of home soil is far from settled. He seems confident, although the HAT is threatening him with judicial charges, could he ever return. Lire la suite »

The SADC´s envoys have to cope in Madagascar with legions of interpretations of the decision taken in Sandton. Marius Franzman, the South African envoy consequently makes the following message clear: "interpretations may come and go, only what we say goes down in history as the genuine version" Lire la suite »

The UDR-TGV hard liners gave a piece of their mind to their allies which accepted the Simao roadmap in March 2011. The imposed authority claimed its allied back by force and silenced their separatist views pushing for closeness to the opposition´s three spheres. Lire la suite »

France happened to be the single major power supporting the Malagasy imposed authority´s leader´s intention to organize the signing of the SADC´s amended roadmap in an unilateral way. Monja Roindefo, the HAT´s former Prime minister, vehemently challenges and predicts complete failure for such a plan. The Rajoelina sphere which basically jointly accepted the roadmap is now divided in two parts: the majority is supporting closeness with the opposition´s three spheres, the TGV-UDR hard liners are remaining isolated. Lire la suite »

The SADC´s Troika´s delegation members are expecting in Antananarivo for Tomas Salomao´s arrival, the executive secretary. They are planning to meet the Malagasy political forces and organize the signing of the roadmap on Friday, September 16th 2011. Progress was noticed in the Malagasy led talks: 9 political groups out of 11 are in for it. Lire la suite »

The SADC made a move on September nd2011 in response to the ultimatum produced by the imposed authority´s leader, Andry Rajoelina. The regional organization´s incoming delegation is creating a stir for political groups in Antananarivo. The roadmap´s final version is not yet a done deal for negotiations about amendments are still under way. Lire la suite »