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 ...
![Egyptians carry the body of one of the thirteen people killed in a car bomb attack earlier in the day, during his funeral in the Egyptian city of Mansura, North of Cairo. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Egypt/000_Was8164705.jpg?itok=7orFxr7a "Egyptians carry the body of one of the thirteen people killed in a car bomb attack earlier in the day, during his funeral in the Egyptian city of Mansura, North of Cairo. [AFP]")
![Iraqi men take part in the funeral of four of the five journalists killed in an attack on an Iraqi television station headquarters the day before, in the northern city of Tikrit, during their funeral, on December 24, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iraq/000_Nic6278587.jpg?itok=yJsJRnhk "Iraqi men take part in the funeral of four of the five journalists killed in an attack on an Iraqi television station headquarters the day before, in the northern city of Tikrit, during their funeral, on December 24, 2013. [AFP]")
![Egyptian women shout slogans during the funeral of one of the thirteen people killed in a car bomb attack earlier in the day, in the Egyptian city of Mansura, North of Cairo, on December 24, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Egypt/000_Nic6278681.jpg?itok=aSFQsAuY "Egyptian women shout slogans during the funeral of one of the thirteen people killed in a car bomb attack earlier in the day, in the Egyptian city of Mansura, North of Cairo, on December 24, 2013. [AFP]")
![The Defense Minister of Iran Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi (L) and Defense Minister of Iraq Saadoun al-Dulaimi (R). [armyrecognition]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iraq/saadoun.jpg?itok=BmM0mtH2 "The Defense Minister of Iran Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi (L) and Defense Minister of Iraq Saadoun al-Dulaimi (R). [armyrecognition]")
![Angry Egyptians set fire to a microbus, said to be belong to a company owned by a businessman who supports the Muslim Brotherhood, after passengers allegedly held up four fingers, the symbol known as "Rabaa", during the funeral of those killed in a car bomb attack earlier in the day, in the Egyptian city of Mansoura, North of Cairo, on December 24, 2013. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Egypt/000_Nic6278684.jpg?itok=UgVx085s "Angry Egyptians set fire to a microbus, said to be belong to a company owned by a businessman who supports the Muslim Brotherhood, after passengers allegedly held up four fingers, the symbol known as \"Rabaa\", during the funeral of those killed in a car bomb attack earlier in the day, in the Egyptian city of Mansoura, North of Cairo, on December 24, 2013. [AFP]")
![Rescuers climb on the rubble of a destroyed building following an airstrike in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on December 24, 2013. Syrian warplanes have killed more than 330 people in a nine-day bombing campaign. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria/000_Nic6278539.jpg?itok=M4krqibQ "Rescuers climb on the rubble of a destroyed building following an airstrike in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on December 24, 2013. Syrian warplanes have killed more than 330 people in a nine-day bombing campaign. [AFP]")
