Last updated: 8 september, 2009 - 16:36 GMT

Dismay at Madagascar's new government

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After weeks of tortuous negotiations aimed at resolving Madagascar's political deadlock, the country's Prime Minister has finally announced a new government.

But it's a government that the main opposition parties have already refused to participate in, as Christina Corbett reports from Antananarivo.

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