Madagascar president starts new term amid opposition boycott
In front of six African presidents in the crowd of 50,000, the 49-year-old party organiser-turned-politician vowed to act with "integrity" to lift the country of 29 million out of its poverty. "Madagascar is today under construction. The transformation is underway, rising on the horizon," he said before watching a military parade. But the absence of two former presidents, Marc Ravalomanana and Hery Rajaonarimampianina, who attended Rajoelina's last inauguration in 2018, highlighted early tensions facing the new administration. Читать дальше...