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‘We are the last hope’: Gen Z Madagascar vows to fight on until president resigns

Crowds of people, riot police with shields and clouds of tear gas
Demonstrators and police face one another on the streets of the capital, Antananarivo, on Tuesday. Photograph: Mamyrael/AP

Young protesters in Madagascar have said they will continue their fight for the resignation of the president, Andry Rajoelina, and rejected his dissolution of the government on Monday as insufficient.

Twenty-two people were killed and 100 injured at the demonstrations, according to the UN. The unrest broke out on 25 September when local councillors were arrested for protesting against water and electricity outages in the capital, Antananarivo. The youth-led protests quickly spread to other towns and cities, fuelled by social media and other “Gen Z protests in Indonesia and Nepal, where the government was toppled.

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