{"id":199745,"date":"2025-10-14T16:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199745\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:10:06","slug":"elite-madagascar-military-unit-says-it-has-seized-power-from-president-andry-rajoelina-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/199745\/","title":{"rendered":"Elite Madagascar military unit says it has seized power from President Andry Rajoelina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the president saying?published at 16:08 BST<\/p>\n<p>16:08 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">President Andry Rajoelina has not yet commented on the announcement of the military takeover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His exact whereabouts are unknown but he is widely believed to have left the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier Rajoelina had tried to dissolve the national assembly &#8211; the lower house of parliament &#8211; before it voted to impeach him. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SE_Rajoelina\/status\/1978033048244367425\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">He put that announcement on X, external<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SE_Rajoelina\/status\/1978068089888534657\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">His next post, which was shared as parliament was getting ready to vote, external<\/a>, was about the energy crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In order to increase energy production in Madagascar and address the electricity difficulties faced by our fellow citizens, I am currently overseeing the reception of new production units.<br \/>\nThese facilities will enhance the national energy capacity,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then said: &#8220;I\u2019m following up with several official visits planned to friendly countries, members of [the regional body] Sadc, before returning home to personally oversee the commissioning of these facilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the president saying?published at 16:08 BST 16:08 BST President Andry Rajoelina has not yet commented on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-199745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}