The Africa Report.

All right, the Africa Report.

We want to focus on Madagascar.

Remember we started the week with this conversation looking at the island nation in turmoil.

Protests began over power and water shortages, unemployment, and accusations of corruption.

It began as a frustration over those basic services, but has now spiraled into a national crisis, with parts of the military reportedly siding with the protesters.

Professor Gilbert Cadiagala is from the University of the Vits Well it's it's a director of the African Center for the Study of the United States at Vits University and joins us now profit.

Very good morning to you.

Thank you for your time.

So we've already delved into the background of the protests and what led us here.

What can you confirm about the latest goings on in Madagascar.

Let us going that the Constitutional Court room that there is a new leader and the new leader was approved by parliament after mister Ragieloino, the president, left the country.

So the problem now is whether it's going to be an internationally recognized government because now there's already a lot of noise from the international community, particularly the African Union and the PADUCT that this is really an unconstitutional change of government, that mister rage Arena is still the legitimately elected president, but on the ground there is a new president, and I think it looks like things are stabilizing now because the military has taken power and they have announced that elections in two years.

So I don't really think that this crisis is going to grow and as we expected, because I think once there is some movement on who the next leader is, and in this case it's a military leader not acceptable to the African Union or SADACT.

But I think the people have made the decisions and that's why he's been legitimated through the courts and the National Assembly.

As I made clear in my introduction.

Of course, many of the protesters, a lot of them young people, were frustrated with shortages in terms of basic service delivery.

Those issues will not go away with President Ragelina.

I know Ragelina now is gone.

They are not going to go away.

But you see, the expectation is that there is a new government that is going to be formed and that is going to come up with more creative ways of dealing with these issues that I've been around for quite a while.

This is a very typical a question of government's economic mismanagement and so on.

So hopefully there is a new leader who can in fact look at these issues much more different.

They accused Metallage Arena of being corrupt and authoritarian, so I would expect that they would have to be more open to many voices because the youth are not very happy, and even the former presidents are not happy.

Everybody is not.

So the issue now is okay, let's see how they translate these kind of grievances into some tangible economic and political benership.

Of course, the other question, of course is SADIG Madagascar.

As I understand it took over shairing the body from August.

What does that mean for SADIG Now.

SADAK was warned in May by a group of MA legacy leaders who said you should not allow mister Ragelorena to be the chair of SADACT.

And this was in May, so they actually never listened to that to that comment from the large broad based leadership in Madagascar.

So now Rageloina is no longer the chair.

But you know, maybe the best thing to do is to just get some other country to take over, maybe South Africa.

In fact, to take that position.

It is not an insurmountable problem.

A Sadak chair is really very nominal.

I mean, they don't really do much.

But I don't think it looks good for the new president, mister Androiannina, to become the Stadact chair because I think, as I said, Sadak is contesting his legitimacy, so they should just give that position through a country like that, which which should do it for it's only for a year.

So Sadak at this stage has not officially made any position clear about what happens next to the chairmanship.

No, they haven't because I think they are still battling with the issue legitimacy of the new government.

So they don't want to touge the Stadact because as I said, it's not a really primary.

It's not a primary, more symbolic than anything else.

Appreciate your time, Professor Gilbert M.

Kadiagala there from its University with