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13/03/2010

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1281

POLITICS & POWER

Rajoelina’s top ten advisors

For the last year, the President of the High Authority for Transition (HAT), Andry Rajoelina known as TGV has managed to stay in power by thwarting international pressure for him to install a consensus regime. Several of his advisors, each in a specific post, have had a significant role to play to help him get over this hurdle or help him find funding. (...) [704 words] [7€]

13/03/2010

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1281

BUSINESS CIRCLES

Madamobil goes on the offensive

In a letter dated 22 February, the Minister for Telecommunications, Augustin Andriamananoro, threatened to revoke the mobile telephone operating licence from the company Madamobil that had been attributed by the Malagasy telecoms regulator Office malgache d’études et de régulation des télécoms (Omert) unless it paid the liquidator of Intercel – whose mobile operating licence it had recovered – the sum of € 870,000 the latter had owed the former national telephone company Telecom Malagasy (Telma). (...) [360 words] [4€]

13/03/2010

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1281

BUSINESS CIRCLES/COMPANIES

Assist Security

At the same time as he created the company Technologie d’avant-garde Internet protocole (TAG-IP) at the beginning of the year jointly with the businessman Alain Moyon (ION 1278), Marc Rivera joined Assist Security, another company in the Assist Developpement group. (...) [66 words] [1.3€]

13/03/2010

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1281

BUSINESS CIRCLES/COMPANIES

Rural Road Technology

The construction of roads in rural zones is often left behind by Madagascar’s international donors, who prefer to concentrate their efforts on the national roads. (...) [86 words] [1.3€]

13/03/2010

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1281

BUSINESS CIRCLES/COMPANIES

The mining companies have not escaped from the crisis in Madagascar. (...) [108 words] [1.3€]

13/03/2010

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1281

POLITICS & POWER/ON THE LINE

TGV’s mother plays the “mpiandry” card in Madagascar

Just before the start of the national mini-conference organised by the President of the High Authority for Transition (HAT), Andry Rajoelina, on 5 and 6 March, his mother Nicole Rajoelina née Ramarofidy wanted to stack all the cards in his favour. (...) [142 words] [1.3€]

13/03/2010

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1281

POLITICS & POWER/ON THE LINE

A new US embassy in Madagascar

The new United States embassy in Antananarivo, situated just outside the city, will be inaugurated in April 2010. (...) [115 words] [1.3€]

27/02/2010

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1280

BUSINESS CIRCLES

Sonapar’s delicate matters

A State-owned organisation headed by Hasimboahangy Andrianainarivelo, the Société Nationale de Participation (Sonapar) is currently in tense negotiation with the Fanampy Rice Mill, owned by the former President Marc Ravalomanana, which is having a hard time repaying its loans because of the Madagascan political crisis. (...) [148 words] [4€]

27/02/2010

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1280

BUSINESS CIRCLES

Investors from Marseilles in bio-fuel

The city of Marseilles (France) is the starting point for several projects to produce bio-fuel in Madagascar. The first, instigated by the firm New Ecologic Oil (NEO) owned by Christian Pretot, Stephane Clair and Claude Harroch has already been cut short due to the political crisis in Madagascar. (...) [244 words] [4€]

27/02/2010

THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER n°1280

BUSINESS CIRCLES/COMPANIES

Tecma

Just when textiles firms in Madagascar are having problems because the American government has suspended the AGOA (African Growth Opportunity Act) for Madagascar, the French entrepreneur Philippe Boyé is building a new factory in Antananarivo. (...) [127 words] [1.3€]

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