Madagascar: No Land Deal with South Koreans

As much as I despise the process that put Andry Rajoelina in power in Madagascar, I do applaud his decision to nix the deal to lease a large tract of land to a South Korean firm for the purposes of growing corn, not for the Malagasy people but for the South Korean people. This corn would have been grown and taken thousands of miles while people were starving right there.
I propose that the authorities invest in the necessary infrastructure to turn that same tract of land into a field to grow crops meant for domestic consumption. If the Koreans wanted the land it's because they knew it could be done. The Malagasy authorities need to turn that land into what the Koreans wanted to turn it into.
African land should be used to provide for the African people, first and foremost, and then for the rest of the world.

Madagascar: A step in the wrong direction

What has taken place in Madagascar is unacceptable in that the military has taken steps to remove its commander in chief. Another word for that is coup. So there have been a coup in Madagascar and the world has just stood by. If we are to move in a more productive and developed future, we have to abide by constitutional law whether we like it or not.
We call upon the African Union leadership to suspend Madagascar from the Union, to impose a trade embargo against the island, and to relocate the Union meeting scheduled to take place there this summer.
The organizers of the coup should be arrested and tried for treason and punished as such. There should absolutely be no room in Africa to depose a democratically elected government without due process. The military is a tool to protect the people, not oppress them.
Khadaffi should step up the pressure to reinstate the democratically-elected government. Rajoelina should be tried and punished for failing the Malagasy people by disobeying the constitution and deposing those elected to protect it.