The Green Machine parades in the capital city while its pawns have to deal with Remenabila and its militiamen the hard way in th

Tens of thousands of drivers were stranded in traffic jam because of a rehearsal. Just as it does every year, the military parade will take place on June 26th inside the stadium of Mahamasina. A few thousand soldiers and police officers are getting ready for their great show while hundreds of their fellow brothers-in-arms are being engulfed into an escalating conflict inMadagascar’s southern bush near Befotaka town, on the heels of Remenabila and his hord. Few weeks ago, a local desperado named Remenabila and hundreds of men repelled a military contingent supposed to put them under arrest and inflicted unusually heavy casualties upon it. According to a military source, the raid deemed to storm this war chief’s stronghold would be underway.

Remenabila used to be a simple “dahalo”, a man making a living out of stealing cattle. This man is now commanding a heavily armed squadron. His forces would be so much growing in number that the ruling power is now addressing a likely armed uprising in the south of the country. At least 2,000 villagers from the south-east of the island fled towards the cities the potentially devastating raids.