BBC: Madagascar arrests generals over plot to kill President Rajoelina
High-ranking army and police officials have been arrested in Madagascar in connection with a failed attempt to kill the country's president.
The arrested include five generals and several active police officers, meaning 21 people are now being investigated over last month's foiled assassination.
Authorities have also seized a gun and $250,000 (£180,000), local media said.
The attempt on President Andry Rajoelina's life was among ongoing turbulence rocking the island nation.
Madagascar has been under a lockdown since the Covid-19 pandemic hit last year and its southern region is in the grips of a famine.
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Update: Madagascar president targeted in assassination plot — prosecutors (DW)
WNU Editor: Madagascar is currently facing multiple crisis. Besides Covid lock-downs there is a famine in the southern part of the country .... ‘Nothing left’: A catastrophe in Madagascar’s famine-hit south (al Jazeera).
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