{"id":39583,"date":"2025-10-15T18:01:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/10\/15\/who-is-michael-randrianirina-the-colonel-who-toppled-madagascars-president\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:01:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:01:52","slug":"who-is-michael-randrianirina-the-colonel-who-toppled-madagascars-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/10\/15\/who-is-michael-randrianirina-the-colonel-who-toppled-madagascars-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Michael Randrianirina, the colonel who toppled Madagascar&rsquo;s president?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Colonel Michael Randrianirina, a senior officer in Madagascar&rsquo;s elite CAPSAT military unit, took control of the African island nation on Tuesday after President Andry Rajoelina fled following weeks of youth-led protests. The officer, once jailed for mutiny, has suspended key state institutions and said it could take up to two years to hold elections.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colonel Michael Randrianirina, a senior officer in Madagascar&rsquo;s elite CAPSAT military unit, took control of the African island nation on Tuesday after President Andry Rajoelina fled following weeks of youth-led protests. The officer, once jailed for mutiny, has suspended key state institutions and said it could take up to two years to hold elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-39583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}