Overview

• Madagascar’s National Assembly held an extraordinary session and voted 130–33 to remove Andry Rajoelina, rejecting his decree dissolving the chamber as lacking legal force.
• Rajoelina appeared from an undisclosed “safe place,” said he feared for his life, and insisted he had not resigned.
• Weeks of demonstrations led largely by Generation Z over power and water cuts, corruption, and limited opportunities intensified after the CAPSAT elite unit sided with protesters.
• Soldiers who joined the protests urged security forces to refuse orders to shoot, reflecting a deepening split in the security apparatus.
• The United Nations reported at least 22 deaths, and media reports—unconfirmed by officials—say a French military plane evacuated Rajoelina to Réunion with authorization from President Emmanuel Macron.