{"id":42692,"date":"2025-10-25T10:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=42692"},"modified":"2025-10-27T10:46:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:46:34","slug":"madagascar-strips-ex-president-rajoelina-of-citizenship-as-former-aid-arrested-for-money-laundering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/madagascar-strips-ex-president-rajoelina-of-citizenship-as-former-aid-arrested-for-money-laundering\/","title":{"rendered":"Madagascar strips ex-president Rajoelina of citizenship as former aid arrested for money laundering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Madagascar\u2019s former president Andry Rajoelina has been stripped of his nationality after fleeing the country earlier this month amid widespread youth-led protests.<\/p>\n<p>The news came as his former advisor, businessman Maminiaina Ravatomanga was arrested in Mauritius, on suspicion laundering more than $160 million using assets in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Ravatomanga, who fled to Mauritius after Rajoelina left Madagascar, was in the custody of the police and officials of the Financial Crimes Commission (FCC) in a private clinic where he had gone to seek treatment in Port Louis, a commission spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2025\/10\/25\/madagascar-strips-ex-president-rajoelina-of-citizenship-as-former-aid-arrested-for-money-l\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2025\/10\/25\/madagascar-strips-ex-president-rajoelina-of-citizenship-as-former-aid-arrested-for-money-l\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madagascar\u2019s former president Andry Rajoelina has been stripped of his nationality after fleeing the country earlier this month amid widespread youth-led protests. The news came as his former advisor, businessman Maminiaina Ravatomanga was arrested in Mauritius, on suspicion laundering more than $160 million using assets in the country. Ravatomanga, who fled to Mauritius after Rajoelina [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-madagascar","type-news-articles","item-year-698","item-theme-loss-and-deprivation-of-nationality","item-theme-nationality-of-politicians"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42694,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42692\/revisions\/42694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}