What happened

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina said in a national broadcast Monday night that he had been “forced to find a safe place to protect my life” after an elite military unit joined anti-government protests, but he did not step down.

It is not known where Rajoelina recorded his announcement, streamed on Facebook after military intervention prevented its planned broadcast on national television, but Reuters reported that he fled the African island nation Sunday on a French military aircraft.

Who said what

Madagascar’s Gen Z–led protests started Sept. 25 over “chronic water and electricity outages but have snowballed into wider discontent with Rajoelina and his government,” corruption and the failure to improve quality of life in the impoverished nation of 31 million, T

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