October 13th, 2025 - 06:22 GMT
ALBAWABA- France evacuated Madagascar’s embattled President Andry Rajoelina on Sunday as a military mutiny and mass protests threatened to overthrow his government, in a dramatic turn that has reignited debate over Paris’s lingering grip on African politics. According to news reports, French forces extracted Rajoelina, who holds dual Malagasy and French citizenship, aboard a military aircraft from the capital, Antananarivo, after an elite army unit known as CAPSAT joined youth-led ...
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