Madagascar

2005 budget in a mess

The budget ministry is having a hard time implementing the 2005 budget to the new standard that President Marc Ravalomanana wants.

Kenan Tepedelen

The Turkish ambassador to Ethiopia, Kenan Tepedelen, has just been accredited in Madagascar. Born in 1949, a law graduate from [...]

Jacques Sylla's good deeds

Two call centres fighting

Far from cooperating, the only two call centres present in the Madagascan capital are pulling in opposite directions.

A minister's French advisor

A French technical advisor is helping the Minister Jean Angelin Randrianarison decentralise the administration.

Rubies in Madagascar

In spite of its permits and its backing, Latvia Madagascar [...]

DFI Wants to Raise $Can 5 Million

Diamond Fields International will shortly issue 14,285,715 shares to raise [...]

Policeman in the eye of a cyclone

The director of immigration and emigration of the national police force has been at the centre of a high profile legal storm for the last week.

Putting the packet on ICT

The Madagascan government wants to attract international ICT operators by promising advantages and a plan for an optical fibre network. In [...]

Adoptions issue soon to be settled

The government of Prime Minister Jacques Sylla has set a priority in settling the question of adoptions by French families [...]

Handry Ratovonarivo

The new chief of protocol of the Malagasy presidency is a young man of 37, Handry Ratovonarivo. He is the [...]

Maxime Ravelojaona

Its an old friend of Pascal Rakotomavo's (the former CEO of Fiaro who now is in charge of rice growing) [...]

A Madagascan Minister's special mission

The Malagasy Minister of the Economy and Finances, Benjamin Andriamparany Radavidson, who had been scheduled to go to a trade [...]

One airline project after another

After the failure of the project to launch Indian Ocean Airways, a new project for a domestic airline is in the making in Antananarivo.

Emmanuel Jenni

Even though diplomatic relations between Switzerland and Madagascar are still at a low point due to the non-clarification of the [...]

Benoît Allix

The director-partner of the small French company Infrastructure Développement Consultants (IDC) which is advising the Malagasy government on one its [...]

Warning to the Friedrich Ebert foundation

The Madagascan government has informed, through diplomatic channels, foreign organisations supporting Madagascan civil society NGOs that their activity is subject [...]

A Central African Republic Consul soon

Marcel Chastan, a French businessman, resident in France but who has been active in Madagascar in the past, is still [...]

The Madagascan ministry of public works and transport has a new secretary general...

The Madagascan ministry of public works and transport has a [...]