26th October, 2025
Madagascar is facing a new
political environment, thanks to the timely intervention of
the military in that country, the situation would have been
worst than the 2011 genocide in Libya. The situation was
triggered by oppression, a failed governance system and lack
of political will to address the demands and aspirations of
the people of Madagascar.
On 14th October, 2025 the
military in Madagascar took over the helm of affairs, to
avert a serious humanitarian crisis in the East African
nation. This came after the former dictator, President Andry
Rajoelina fled the country to an unknown destination, and
abandoned his people to perish at the pity and mercy of the
national Police forces. Based on this, that the Madagasy
Military, acting as a savior, had no other alternative but
to fill the vacuum created by the departure of the former
dictator.
The situation in Madagascar remains unstable
with former European colonial masters threatening to do
everything to return the former fascist government to power.
The African Union’s (AU) suspension of an African country
hit already a nation facing wholesale poverty, oppression
and environmental degradation.
Prior to the
intervention of the Madagasy military to save their country
from further destruction and devastation under the fascist
dictatorship of former President Andry Rajoelina, Madagascar
was plunged into a devastating humanitarian crisis. In other
words, the era of the former dictator was a period where
many Madagasy people suffered indignities, with a weak
governance system and limited progress towards development
and sustainable environment, where social cohesion was
completely eroded, access to basic services disrupted,
livelihoods destroyed, and where protection risks jumped
considerably.
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Against the backdrop of changing current
narratives that the New African Charter International (NACI)
is seeking donor funding to help Madagascar, which is facing
an unprecedented crisis created by years of fascist
dictatorship governance, economic failures and weeks of
nationwide street protests. It is the view of NACI that,
with this appeal to donors there is every reason to believe
that help will be forth-going to the competent authorities
in Antananarivo, to help the government of President Colonel
Michael Randrianirina implement its rehabilitation and
reconstruction programmes.
The new government of
Antananarivo has laid down its priorities and one of them is
to embark upon an accelerated program of development and
prosperity that will benefit all the people of Madagascar.
This will be possible only with outside support and funding,
which would be needed to help the new government address the
challenges on the ground.
From a survey on the
situation on the ground, the rehabilitation and
reconstruction needs in the short, medium and long term
across Madagascar would run to billions of US Dollars. The
plain truth is that, the suffering of the people of
Madagascar is not over yet, though there is a new government
in Antananarivo. The country faces massive challenges simply
in wiping-off the wounds and scars inflicted over the past
painful years. The situation in Madagascar should be a
concern to all good people, especially those who believe and
advocate peace, freedom and homeland dignity, and this would
depend on how the international community will respond and
ready to shoulder its responsibility towards the people of
Madagascar.
The past political leaders of Madagascar
had positioned Madagascar to the level of a beggar nation.
The world is indebted to the plight of Madagascar, a nation
that has been raped, pillaged, and destroyed by regional and
foreign powers and is referred to as a failed state under
the former dictator Andry Rajoelina.
Madagascar has
passed through successive crises since 2009, a political
crisis generated by foreign backed coups and counter coups.
It was in this process that the then Mayor of Antananarivo,
the capital city, Andry Rajoelina was imposed as Head of
state and Commander-In-Chief in the East African nation.
Besides, Madagascar had also faced an electoral crisis and a
deepened humanitarian emergency, driven by a cycle of failed
governance system, corruption and a battered economy. The
consequences of this crisis have been the failure by
political leaders to fight abject poverty and other social
ills, and as well as the frequent degradation of the
environment due to climate-related crises such as drought
and cyclones. This political instability, coupled by
epileptic state institutions, dysfunctional economic system,
infrastructural decadence, worsening social disorderliness
and national food insecurity crisis are the challenges
before the new government in Antananarivo, led by President
Colonel Michael Randrianirina.
There is a need to
resist outside pressures to join the African Union’s (AU)
policy of collective punishment towards our African brothers
and sisters in Madagascar. NACI opposes any foreign-dictated
decision to kick a sovereign African nation, such as
Madagascar and the Sahel states out of the activities of the
AU. NACI opposes also the threats and aggressive rhetoric
statements by some African leaders against another African
state; and deplores the view held by many of the most
powerful nations in the world that collective punishment is
an acceptable foreign policy to be meted on weaker
nations.
Now Madagascar is but a shadow of its former
glorious self and the new government in Antananarivo has
laid its plans to rebuild its country as a credible, just
and regional power endowed with good governance, political
stability, economic growth, social justice, and
environmental safety. Madagascar needs help, and not hate,
malice or grudges! The new government in the East African
nation of Madagascar needs help to rebuild its
infrastructure and provide its people with the means to
build and rebuild a nation for the good of current and
future generations.
It is clearly in the interests of
regional peace, political stability and development, and
sustainable environment that the African Union should
rescind its hate policy towards Madagascar and its people.
It is also in the interests of all peoples and nations of
the world that political leaders must place the interests of
their people first, before any other selfish interests. We
urge the African Union to help resolve problems faced by
member-states by employing all diplomatic avenues and
political efforts, without compromising the demands and
aspirations of the people, or allowing for lives to be
destroyed.
The New African Charter International
expresses its deep concern regarding the West’s hatred for
Africa and African people. The current political development
in Madagascar calls for understanding of the demands and
aspirations of the people in that country, and not to what
France or other detractors are selling out to the public.
Rather, we call on international development partners to act
in light of the current critical circumstances, as well as
the necessity of strengthening joint international efforts
to help rehabilitate and build the East African nation, and
not to sow the seeds of destabilisation that would have
negative impacts on the lives of the people.
The
current political crisis sweeping across Africa today is
partly driven by a desire to impose a neo-colonial agenda on
the continent. Africans all over the world have intimated
their rejection of France’s neo-colonial and meddling
mentality in the affairs of the continent. The issue of the
Gen-Z movement in Africa cannot be underestimated, it would
never be wiped-off from the face of the earth by any
threats, or force, or by media manipulation, threats or
blackmail.
Peace would remain elusive in Africa unless
NATO rescinds or abandons its aggressive, inhumane and
oppressive policy towards the continent. France’s
aggressive rhetoric towards Madagascar was mooted by a
desire to deflect world attention away from the real issues.
Instead the former colonial Empire opts to hide the shocking
ground realities by peddling lies and projecting its
concocted normalcy narrative on Madagascar. The truth
remains that during the reign of the former dictator,
Madagascar witnessed the erosion of the country’s freedom,
human rights values, socio-political freedom and
environmental justice.
Today, we join the people of
Madagascar and Africans all over the world to demand respect
for our continent. And, we end this statement by calling
upon the international community to come forward and lend
its support to the new people’s government in
Antananarivo, under the wise leadership of President Colonel
Michael
Randrianirina.
