Året 2009 ble et dramatisk år for Madagaskar. Etter statskuppet 17. mars, der den unge ordføreren i hovedstaden, Andry Rajoelina (35), tok makten og tvang president Marc Ravalomanana (60) ut i eksil i Sør-Afrika, har landet gjennomgått en sammenhengende krise. Krisen fortsatte i 2010 og har store konsekvenser for land, folk og, ikke minst, for natur og miljø. Les mer >
Cape Town (South Africa) — Southern African leaders want to bar Madagascar's deposed president, Marc Ravalomanana, from standing in new elections - despite condemning as unconstitutional his ousting in 2009. Les mer >
Johannesburg (South Africa) - Deposed president Marc Ravalomanana's failed bid to return to Madagascar, where he has been been convicted in abstentia of ordering troops to fire on protesters, has lit a fire beneath Southern African Development Community (SADC) negotiators, who now aim to clear the way for his return by the end of February, by which time legislation granting him amnesty is expected to be finalised. Les mer >