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 ...
![SNC president George Sabra said in October that the group had taken a “firm decision” not to attend the talks. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/169678052.jpg?itok=J8G95rDe "SNC president George Sabra said in October that the group had taken a “firm decision” not to attend the talks. [Getty Images]")
![Fighting began in the Ramadi area on December 30, 2013, when security forces removed the main anti-government protest camp set up after demonstrations broke out in late 2012 against what Sunni Arabs say is the marginalisation and targeting of their community. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/460308769.jpg?itok=DMZ701As "Fighting began in the Ramadi area on December 30, 2013, when security forces removed the main anti-government protest camp set up after demonstrations broke out in late 2012 against what Sunni Arabs say is the marginalisation and targeting of their community. [AFP]")
![Supporters of Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi run for cover from tear gas fired by riot police during clashes in the northeastern part of Cairo's Nasr City district on January 3, 2014. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/460309699.jpg?itok=uFIh8UAl "Supporters of Egypt's deposed president Mohamed Morsi run for cover from tear gas fired by riot police during clashes in the northeastern part of Cairo's Nasr City district on January 3, 2014. [Getty Images]")
![A rebel fighter from the Free Syrian Army holds a position with a Belgium made FAL rifle at a front line in the Salah al-Din neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on December 1, 2013. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/452758435.jpg?itok=oZcvJfBT "A rebel fighter from the Free Syrian Army holds a position with a Belgium made FAL rifle at a front line in the Salah al-Din neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on December 1, 2013. [Getty Images]")
![A police car passes the Palestine embassy which stands next to the residence of the late Palestinian ambassador Jamal al-Jamal on January 2, 2014 in Prague, Czech Republic. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/460106405.jpg?itok=bKk2kdNB "A police car passes the Palestine embassy which stands next to the residence of the late Palestinian ambassador Jamal al-Jamal on January 2, 2014 in Prague, Czech Republic. [Getty Images]")
![Men gather for the funeral of a person killed in fighting with Iraqi forces in the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on December 31, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/459810485.jpg?itok=IxNTcCTR "Men gather for the funeral of a person killed in fighting with Iraqi forces in the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on December 31, 2013. [AFP]")
![Iris scanners could be used at airports, border crossings, and other security checkpoints, in the search for criminals and terror suspects. [amazonaws]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria/irisscan.jpg?itok=BzNPAbu1 "Iris scanners could be used at airports, border crossings, and other security checkpoints, in the search for criminals and terror suspects. [amazonaws]")
![A member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant carries his weapon as he looks through a hole in a wall in Sheikh Saeed neighbourhood December 4, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria/ISIS.jpg?itok=BvOPQFw4 "A member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant carries his weapon as he looks through a hole in a wall in Sheikh Saeed neighbourhood December 4, 2013. [AFP]")
![US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) listens as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a statement to the press before a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office on January 2, 2014 in Jerusalem. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Israel/000_Nic6281007.jpg?itok=1AImwQSY "US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) listens as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a statement to the press before a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office on January 2, 2014 in Jerusalem. [AFP]")
![Flames rise from burning cars at the site of a car bomb that targeted Beirut's southern suburb of Haret Hreik on January 2, 2014. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/lebanon/000_Nic6280975.jpg?itok=l2C8Kem5 "Flames rise from burning cars at the site of a car bomb that targeted Beirut's southern suburb of Haret Hreik on January 2, 2014. [AFP]")
![Tunisian riot police run towards a scene to control the situation. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Tunis/riot_police.jpg?itok=SA_olmoU "Tunisian riot police run towards a scene to control the situation. [AFP]")
![Armed tribesmen and Iraqi police sit in a car as clashes rage on in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on January 2, 2014. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iraq/000_Nic6280927.jpg?itok=SoUin5SK "Armed tribesmen and Iraqi police sit in a car as clashes rage on in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on January 2, 2014. [AFP]")
