Madagascar: in Diego Suarez, Tensions and Violence over Student Housing

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One dead, several wounded and buildings burned: in Diego Suarez, a city in northern Madagascar, the expulsion of non-students from the Antsiranana campus turned into violent clashes this weekend. Students and young people from neighbourhoods clashed, with hostages on both sides. Violence that revived the fear of a reappearance of the "foroches", these organized gangs equipped with white weapons, composed of very young offenders, paid to serve th…