{"id":13306,"date":"2025-10-14T10:54:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/madagascars-president-flees-country\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:18","slug":"madagascars-president-flees-country","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/madagascars-president-flees-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Madagascar&#8217;s President\u00a0flees country"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Madagascar&#8217;s President Andry Rajoelina has fled the country. This comes after the President&#8217;s office announced that Rajoelina would address the nation on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Demonstrations erupted in the former French colony in late September over water and power shortages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">They have since escalated into an uprising over broader grievances, including corruption, bad governance and the lack of basic services.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">There have also been calls for the President to resign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">A Head of the opposition party, a military source and a Foreign Diplomat confirmed that Madagascar&#8217;s President, Andry Rajoelina, has fled the African nation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">This marks the second time that young protesters have toppled a government in just over a month of worldwide Gen Z unrest, following Nepal&#8217;s unrest in early September.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In an address to the nation, which was broadcast on Facebook on Monday evening, Rajoelina said he had relocated for security reasons after receiving warnings of an imminent attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Despite not disclosing his location, he insisted that he would not allow Madagascar to be destroyed.<\/p>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-_rgfnZAC14?si=O9LTFqIqE7nAncee\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13280,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-13306","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina has fled||Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina has fled","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18488,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13306\/revisions\/18488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}