South Africa has for the first time given an indication of where it stands regarding the Madagascan government.
The sentencing in absentia of Madagascar’s former president Marc Ravalomanana to hard labour for life will not help resolve problems in Madagascar, International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said on Thursday.
A court in the capital, Antanarivo, has sentenced former president Marc Ravalomanana and two officers to life imprisonment with hard labour for the part they played in the deaths of about 30 protesters before he was forced from office in 2009.
The sentencing of Madagascar’s former president Marc Ravalomanana to hard labour for life may prove to be one more obstacle in the island’s attempts to emerge from its current political crisis.
A court has convicted Madagascar’s ousted president of conspiracy to commit murder in a case related to the turmoil of the coup that toppled him.
