{"id":35224,"date":"2025-10-14T16:11:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/elite-military-unit-in-madagascar-claims-to-seize-power-media\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:11:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:11:28","slug":"elite-military-unit-in-madagascar-claims-to-seize-power-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/elite-military-unit-in-madagascar-claims-to-seize-power-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Elite military unit in Madagascar claims to seize power &#8211; media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the elite military unit CAPSAT in Madagascar announced a seizure of power after a vote to impeach Rajoelina. Colonel Michael Randriariana read a statement on national radio.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F10%2F14%2F1760457225-4552-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Elite military unit in Madagascar claims to seize power - media\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The head of an elite military unit in Madagascar has announced that they have taken control of the government, UNN reports, citing the BBC.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>Following the impeachment vote against Rajoelina, the elite military unit CAPSAT announced that it had seized power.<\/p>\n<p>Colonel Michael Randriariana, head of the elite military unit CAPSAT, read a statement on national radio saying: &quot;We have taken power.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>CAPSAT challenged the president&#039;s authority over the weekend, unexpectedly joining forces with protesters demanding Rajoelina&#039;s resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Madagascar President Rajoelina impeached by lawmakers &#8211; Reuters14.10.25, 16:26 \u2022 1518 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the elite military unit CAPSAT in Madagascar announced a seizure of power after a vote to impeach Rajoelina. Colonel Michael Randriariana read a statement on national radio. The head of an elite military unit in Madagascar has announced that they have taken control of the government, UNN reports, citing the BBC. Details [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}