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Madagascar protesters return to streets despite move to dissolve government
['Thomson Reuters']
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ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) -Security forces fired teargas to disperse hundreds of young protesters in Madagascar’s capital who took to the streets again on Tuesday despite the president’s decision to partly yield to their demands by dissolving the government.
Others went further, waving placards with messages such as “We need water, we need electricity, Rajoelina out”, footage of protesters marching in the capital Antananarivo, broadcast on the privately owned broadcaster Real TV Madagasikara, showed.
Protesters also marched in the city of Fenoarivo, a small town 20 km (12 miles) west of the capital, footage from Real TV showed.
In Monday’s and last week’s protests, the demonstrators adapted a flag used in Nepal, where protesters forced the prime minister to resign this month.
They have also used similar online tactics to organise rallies as protesters did last year in Kenya, where the government scrapped proposed tax legislation.