Saturday March 28, 2009
Trouble in Paradise
Laura Norton
Foreign Policy in Focus
Madagascar, a tourist paradise of beaches and exotic animals, is home to one of the most uninterrupted cycles of coups and crises in Africa.
Democracy hasn't settled easily on the world's fourth largest island. Like so many other African nations still struggling still with their colonial past, Madagascar was left by France in 1960 ill-equipped for free and fair elections.
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