By AfricaNews Monitoring Team
MADAGASCAR, 16 March 2009: Soldiers in Madagascar seized one of the palaces belonging to the embattled President Marc Ravalomanana, in the centre of Antananarivo.
Explosions and gunfire erupted as tanks smashed the palace gates. The central bank was also reportedly taken. He was in another residence outskirts of the city.
Earlier opposition leader Andry Rajoelina called for the arrest of the president and won public backing from the armed forces’ self-declared head.
The African Union has condemned the “attempted coup d’etat” and called on Madagascar to respect its constitution.
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