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Madagascar president taps general for PM
The Mercury
|October 08, 2025
MADAGASCAR'S President Andry Rajoelina this week appointed an army general as prime minister, hoping to quell surging protests against his leadership that have plunged the country into crisis.
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In the latest in days of youth-led marches, security forces dispersed hundreds of demonstrators with tear gas in Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo, injuring at least one, reporters saw.
Sparked by anger against persistent water and power cuts in the impoverished Indian Ocean island, the demonstrations started on September 25 and have grown into an angry campaign for Rajoelina to resign.
“With wisdom, I have decided to appoint Ruphin Fortunat Dimbisoa Zafisambo, divisional general, as prime minister of the government,’ Rajoelina said in a declaration at the presidential palace.
The new premier should “serve the people” and be “someone clean, with integrity, and who works quickly’, he said.
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