{"id":7151,"date":"2012-01-18T20:53:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T18:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/ravalomanana-to-return-to-madagascar-statement\/"},"modified":"2012-01-18T20:53:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T18:53:51","slug":"ravalomanana-to-return-to-madagascar-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/ravalomanana-to-return-to-madagascar-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravalomanana to return to Madagascar-statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Jan 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Former Madagascar<br \/>\nleader Marc Ravalomanana will return to the Indian Ocean island<br \/>\n&#8220;imminently&#8221;, a statement released by his South African<br \/>\npublicists firm said on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It said details of his departure would be released closer to<br \/>\nthe time of the trip.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Exiled in South Africa since rebel troops helped topple him<br \/>\nin 2009, Ravalomanana has been sentenced in absentia to life in<br \/>\nprison for the killings of demonstrators by elite troops in the<br \/>\nrun up to his removal.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Madagascar&#8217;s interim leader has said the return of the<br \/>\nexiled former president risked stoking tensions on the island,<br \/>\nwhich has been plagued by instability for most of the past three<br \/>\nyears.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ravalomanana said he would not work with the new government<br \/>\nthat came into power in November that was rejected by opposition<br \/>\nparties.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In September, Madagascar said it would arrest Ravalomanana<br \/>\non his return to the country. \t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Phumza Macanda)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Jan 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Former Madagascar leader Marc Ravalomanana will return to the Indian Ocean island &#8220;imminently&#8221;, a statement released by his South African publicists firm said on Wednesday. It said details of his departure would be released closer to the time of the trip. Exiled in South Africa since rebel troops helped topple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-7151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}