Coup d'état in Madagascar. Soldiers from an elite unit announced Tuesday that they were assuming political control of the island, following weeks of demonstrations that ended with the flight of President Andry Rajoelina. "We have taken power," Colonel Michael Randrianirina said on national radio. He had led the mutiny of soldiers who this weekend joined the thousands of young Gen Z protesters who led the anti-government protests.

Madagascar will receive next Sunday three human skulls that the French government handed over this week, complying, for the first time, with the 2023 law requiring the return of human remains for a proper burial. It has been 128 years since French troops, in the midst of their colonial conquest of the western African island, massacred the Sakalava ethnic group, killing and decapitating King Ampanjaka Toera. The skulls of the monarch and two of his warriors were subsequently transported to Paris and have been on display for years at the French capital's Museum of Natural History.

From her office in Antananarivo, Zo Randriamaro coordinates an ecofeminist organization, CRAAD-OI, that fights against extractive projects that threaten ecosystems and communities in Madagascar. The project is a means of attracting foreign companies involved in the project. Global research into critical minerals for the energy and digital transition, and also for a growing arms industry.