{"id":13307,"date":"2025-10-14T12:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/madagascar-president-dissolves-national-assembly-escalating-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:18","slug":"madagascar-president-dissolves-national-assembly-escalating-crisis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/madagascar-president-dissolves-national-assembly-escalating-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Madagascar President dissolves national assembly, escalating crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Madagascar&#8217;s President Andry Rajoelina said on Tuesday he had dissolved the national assembly, escalating a standoff with youth-led protesters and the military which forced him to flee the country.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">A decree posted on Facebook said Rajoelina \u00a0had consulted with the leaders of the assembly and the Senate, but it was not immediately clear if the move had legal value.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">In a defiant address to the nation from an undisclosed location on Monday, Rajoelina refused to step down despite pressure from weeks of Gen Z protests demanding his resignation and widespread defections in the army.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The opposition has been trying to gather enough signatures to launch impeachment proceedings against him in parliament.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-_rgfnZAC14?si=Kg9Xsp23oAtvQuTd\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13308,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-13307","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":"Andry Rajoelina said he had dissolved the national assembly||Andry Rajoelina said he had dissolved the national assembly","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13307","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\/13307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18489,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13307\/revisions\/18489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}