Groups of Madagascar soldiers joined thousands of protestors in the capital Saturday, AFP reporters said, after announcing they would refuse any orders to shoot demonstrators.

Fresh youth-led demonstrations in Antananarivo drew large crowds in one of the biggest gatherings since a protest movement erupted on the Indian Ocean island on September 25.

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    6 months ago

    The Gen Z protests are really gaining momentum. Check this map:

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      6 months ago

      Gotta get some more green on that map! I’m thinking fascist-occupied Italy would be a great place to start, given what happened there almost exactly a century ago…

      And the US and Russia, of course, but those are both almost too obvious to be worth mentioning and too entrenched to happen anywhere near as soon as we’d like…

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        6 months ago

        Soon. But russia will just end in civil war, putler will never give up power without killing everyone.