{"id":7268,"date":"2012-01-21T20:58:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T18:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/update-3-madagascars-ravalomanana-back-in-s-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-01-21T20:58:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T18:58:49","slug":"update-3-madagascars-ravalomanana-back-in-s-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-madagascars-ravalomanana-back-in-s-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Madagascar&#8217;s Ravalomanana back in S.Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Plane returns to South Africa after mid-air divert<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Ravalomanana allies quit government in protest<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Ousted leader still hopes to return<\/p>\n<p> (Recasts throughout)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Stoddard and Alain Iloniaina<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG\/ANTANANARIVO, Jan 21 (Reuters) &#8211;<br \/>\n Madagascar&#8217;s exiled former leader Marc Ravalomanana was back<br \/>\nwhere he started on Saturday after a plane flying him home was<br \/>\nordered to turn around mid-flight and returned to Johannesburg&#8217;s<br \/>\nmain international airport.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ravalomanana&#8217;s second failed bid in less than a year to<br \/>\nreturn could have ended in his arrest and would have stoked<br \/>\npolitical tensions on the impoverished Indian Ocean island. He<br \/>\nhas been in self-imposed exile for almost 3 years since his<br \/>\ntoppling in a military coup<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Madagascar&#8217;s government rejected accusations it had denied<br \/>\nthe plane permission to land.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, instructions from the government for a number of<br \/>\nthe island&#8217;s airports to be shut down, including Antananrivo,<br \/>\nduring the afternoon are detailed on the website of the Agency<br \/>\nfor Aerial Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar, an<br \/>\nAfrican traffic control agency.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The former leader&#8217;s political allies said they were pulling<br \/>\nout of the country&#8217;s consensus government in protest.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Plane returns to South Africa after mid-air divert * Ravalomanana allies quit government in protest * Ousted leader still hopes to return (Recasts throughout) By Ed Stoddard and Alain Iloniaina JOHANNESBURG\/ANTANANARIVO, Jan 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Madagascar&#8217;s exiled former leader Marc Ravalomanana was back where he started on Saturday after a plane flying him home [&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-7268","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\/7268","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=7268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}