{"id":1441,"date":"2025-10-08T22:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2025-10-08T22:17:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T22:17:20","slug":"madagascars-president-appoints-general-as-pm-amid-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"Madagascar\u2019s president appoints general as PM amid\u00a0protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Madagascar\u2019s President Andry Rajoelina on Monday appointed an army general as prime minister, hoping to quell surging protests against his leadership that have plunged the country into crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the latest in days of youth-led marches, security forces dispersed hundreds of demonstrators with tear gas in Madagascar\u2019s capital, Antananarivo, injuring at least one, AFP reporters saw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ayra Starr - Goodbye (Warm Up) ft. Asake (Official Music Video)\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/22PZkwJpu9k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sparked by anger against persistent water and power cuts in the impoverished Indian Ocean island, the demonstrations started on September 25 and have grown into an angry campaign for Rajoelina to resign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith wisdom, I have decided to appoint Ruphin Fortunat Dimbisoa Zafisambo, divisional general, as prime minister of the government,\u201d Rajoelina said late Monday in a declaration at the presidential palace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new premier should \u201cserve the people\u201d and be \u201csomeone clean, with integrity, and who works quickly\u201d, he said, promising he was \u201cready to save Madagascar\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gen Z movement that rallied the protests on social media responded by repeating calls for Rajoelina to resign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said it was giving him a 48-hour \u201cultimatum\u201d to \u201crespond favourably\u201d to their demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs long as Andry Rajoelina remains in power, we will continue to fight,\u201d the group said on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajoelina\u2019s move to sack&nbsp;his entire government last week failed to placate the demonstrators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>University students and residents gathered near the University of Ankatso on the outskirts of the capital on Monday, the 12th day of the movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They then marched towards the city centre, where they were stopped by a barricade put up by security forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clashes erupted throughout the afternoon, with at least one young man wounded and evacuated to the main hospital, AFP reporters saw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are about 120 hours of power cuts per week where I live,\u201d said 21-year-old protester Tommy Fanomezantsoa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are protesting for everyone\u2019s sake,\u201d he told AFP. \u201cThe president is not listening to the anger of the people at the bottom. He always does what he wants.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ankatso district was the birthplace of a 1972 revolt that led to the ousting of the first president of the poverty-stricken island, Philibert Tsiranana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe future of this country depends on me, on you, on all of us,\u201d one of the protest leaders told the crowd of several hundred people, urging them not to allow the movement to lose momentum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe can clearly see that democracy in Madagascar is not respected at all,\u201d said another protest leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey are even destroying it with brutality,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was referring to a United Nations statement last week that at least 22 people had been killed in the protests and more than 100 wounded, a figure rejected by the authorities. <a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/madagascars-president-appoints-general-as-pm-amid-protests\/?utm_source=auto-read-also&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;amp\">(Punch)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madagascar\u2019s President Andry Rajoelina on Monday appointed an army general as prime minister, hoping to quell surging protests against his leadership that have plunged the country into crisis. In the latest in days of youth-led marches, security forces dispersed hundreds of demonstrators with tear gas in Madagascar\u2019s capital, Antananarivo, injuring at least one, AFP reporters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1844,950,1847,1845,1846,786],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign","tag-andry-rajoelina","tag-madagascar","tag-philibert-tsiranana","tag-protests","tag-ruphin-fortunat-dimbisoa-zafisambo","tag-united-nations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Madagascar\u2019s president appoints general as PM amid\u00a0protests - Tona Today<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Madagascar\u2019s President Andry Rajoelina on Monday appointed an army general as prime minister, hoping to quell surging p\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=1441\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Madagascar\u2019s president appoints general as PM amid\u00a0protests - 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