Andry Nirina Rajoelina (Andry TGV)

Mugabe and Andry Rajoelina of Madagascar must be watching Gbagbo’s tactics closely in the lead up to their own electoral battles...

He has not announced that he is standing but transitional leader Andry Rajoelina is on the campaign trail for the presidential and legislative polls that are due by midyear...

Transitional leader Andry Rajoelina says that nothing can stop him from winning the presidential elections...

The transitional regime led by Andry Rajoelina is threatening to cancel oil exploration licences held by Western investors and hand them to the Hong Kong-based China International Fund...

But the reality is that Madagascar’s beleaguered Haute Autorité de la Transition (HAT) regime led by Andry Rajoelina has been struggling to find financing from any source...

A rowdy colonel in detention is lambasting Andry Rajoelina’s Haute autorité de la transition (HAT) for its reliance on opaque deals with Asian companies...

President Andry Rajoelina – nicknamed ‘TGV’ after France’s high-speed train – wants to leave a train service as his legacy when he steps down from power in 2011...

Although President Andry Rajoelina aims for economic nationalism and expansion he has opted for penny-pinching financial orthodoxy hoping to keep state finances on track...

France has kept on pressing Madagascar’s post-putsch leader Andry Rajoelina to compromise with his rivals over terms for a democratic transition...

Andry Rajoelina President of the incumbent Haute Autorité de la Transition (HAT) has said that he will not stand in presidential elections later this year but he is determined to set terms for a new constitutional framework boycotting the deal negotiated with his opponents at talks in Mozambique and Ethiopia last year...

As the beneficiary of a military coup himself (against Libya’s King Idriss in September 1969) Gadaffi’s instincts were to indulge military usurpers such as the Guinean and Mauritanian putschists and even the Malagasy disc jockey Andry Rajoelina who harried Marc Ravalomanana from power in Antananarivo in March (AC Vol 50 No 20)...