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Madagascar

DIDIER RATSIRAKA

One of head of state Didier Ratsiraka's nieces, Danièle Ratsiraka, arrived in Paris on September 7 to take up her [...]

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PRIVATIZATION STILL DIFFICULT

Privatization of the state-owned petroleum products refinery Solima, an essential [...]

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SHRIMP TRANSACTIONS

Pêcheries de Nossy Be (PNB), a company whose majority shareholder is Salim Ismail and whose chairman and managing director is [...]

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IFC TROTS OUT AN OLD PROBLEM

When the Malagasy authorities asked International Finance Corporation (a World Bank subsidiary) to come into the capital of BTM alongside [...]

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NICOLAS WERBERT

A 36-year-old Belgian will take over from John De Jager, [...]

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PROSECUTOR ON HOT-SPOT

Justice minister Anaclet Imbiky called his staff and all judges [...]

Subscribers only Politics 04.09.1999

Malagasy justice minister Anaclet Imbiky, who is also spokesperson of the Arema presidential party, has got a lot of work on his hands. An opinion poll ordered by his ministry in six of the country's provinces has confirmed the little [.

Subscribers only Politics 31.07.1999

RATSIRAKA IN RABAT FOR FIRST TIME

The sudden death of king Hassan II of Morocco perhaps [...]

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PRE-QUALIFICATION FOR DISTRIBUTION EQUIPMENT

As negotiations with the World Bank on the privatization of [...]

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SBL VACCINE

Sven Danielsson, managing director of SBL Vaccin AB, wrote to The Indian Ocean Newsletter on July 16 to clarify the [...]

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RAYMOND RANJEVA

Elected by the United Nations General Assembly and the UN Security Council in 1990 to a renewable nine-year mandate as [...]

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PMS ON STAND-BY

As Antananarivo rattles with rumours of a government reshuffle which might see Blandin Rajafimanjato move to the finance ministry and [...]

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TABLETOP TALKS ON BTM TAKE-OVER FOR BOA

Negotiations are continuing to find partners for Bank of Africa [...]

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PRIVATIZATION AS SEEN BY PFP

The latest version of the policy framework paper for 1999-2001 distributed to Malagasy MPs this week should serve as a [...]

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US EMBASSY REOPENS

The nearly three-week closure (June 25-July 12) of the US embassy on Madagascar was officially attributed to possible terrorist operations [...]

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GETTING HANDS ON NOSY SAKATIA

The representative of Galana Petroleum (buyer of part of the petroleum distribution network and the Toamasina refinery in the framework [...]

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CHRISTIAN REMI RICHARD

A former foreign minister under head of state Didier Ratsiraka during Madagascar's Second Republic (1975-1991) has just taken up new [...]

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CONTRACT FOR STERLING MERCHANT FINANCE TO PRIVATIZE SECREN

The Malagasy government has chosen Washington-based merchant bankers Sterling Merchant [...]

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ALAIN J. TEHINDRAZANARIVELO

The new secretary general of the ministry for scientific research, Dr. Alain Jacob Tehindrazanarivelo, who took up his functions last [...]

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FRENCH INTEREST FOR MALAGASY FIRMS

Energy and telecommunications stood in good position during talks between a delegation of French businessmen which went to Madagascar this [...]

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ALBERT ZAFY

Impeached ex-president Albert Zafy, who is now merely an MP, [...]

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EUROPEAN UNION LINES UP ON IMF

The European Development Fund is expected to rule next week on a 50 million euro loan to support Madagascar's structural [...]

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TANTELY COPIES PIERROT

As minister for the budget Pierrot Rajaonarivelo had done last year by publishing the name of companies recalcitrant with the [...]

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Spotlight
ONE STEP FORWARD BUT TWO STEPS BACK

The counsels of firmness that World Bank official Michael Sarris delivered to Madagascar's prime minister Tantely Andrianarivo fell flat (ION 862) and striking workers at the state-owned petroleum products utility Solima managed to hold out against the government, infuriating head [.

Subscribers only Politics 26.06.1999

STRONG INTEREST IN ST MARIE ISLE

The Malagasy group Rajabali, which owns two internationally-known hotels (Tana Plaza, open, and Hotel de France, renovations) in Antananarivo, plus [...]

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Madagascar

DIDIER RATSIRAKA

PRIVATIZATION STILL DIFFICULT

SHRIMP TRANSACTIONS

IFC TROTS OUT AN OLD PROBLEM

NICOLAS WERBERT

PROSECUTOR ON HOT-SPOT

Spotlight
THE PRICE OF JUDGES

RATSIRAKA IN RABAT FOR FIRST TIME

PRE-QUALIFICATION FOR DISTRIBUTION EQUIPMENT

SBL VACCINE

RAYMOND RANJEVA

PMS ON STAND-BY

TABLETOP TALKS ON BTM TAKE-OVER FOR BOA

PRIVATIZATION AS SEEN BY PFP

US EMBASSY REOPENS

GETTING HANDS ON NOSY SAKATIA

CHRISTIAN REMI RICHARD

CONTRACT FOR STERLING MERCHANT FINANCE TO PRIVATIZE SECREN

ALAIN J. TEHINDRAZANARIVELO

FRENCH INTEREST FOR MALAGASY FIRMS

ALBERT ZAFY

EUROPEAN UNION LINES UP ON IMF

TANTELY COPIES PIERROT

Spotlight
ONE STEP FORWARD BUT TWO STEPS BACK

STRONG INTEREST IN ST MARIE ISLE

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DIDIER RATSIRAKA

PRIVATIZATION STILL DIFFICULT

SHRIMP TRANSACTIONS

IFC TROTS OUT AN OLD PROBLEM

NICOLAS WERBERT

PROSECUTOR ON HOT-SPOT

Spotlight THE PRICE OF JUDGES

RATSIRAKA IN RABAT FOR FIRST TIME

PRE-QUALIFICATION FOR DISTRIBUTION EQUIPMENT

SBL VACCINE

RAYMOND RANJEVA

PMS ON STAND-BY

TABLETOP TALKS ON BTM TAKE-OVER FOR BOA

PRIVATIZATION AS SEEN BY PFP

US EMBASSY REOPENS

GETTING HANDS ON NOSY SAKATIA

CHRISTIAN REMI RICHARD

CONTRACT FOR STERLING MERCHANT FINANCE TO PRIVATIZE SECREN

ALAIN J. TEHINDRAZANARIVELO

FRENCH INTEREST FOR MALAGASY FIRMS

ALBERT ZAFY

EUROPEAN UNION LINES UP ON IMF

TANTELY COPIES PIERROT

Spotlight ONE STEP FORWARD BUT TWO STEPS BACK

STRONG INTEREST IN ST MARIE ISLE

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