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Madagascar

ELECTORAL SCATTERGUN

The entourage of prime minister Pascal Rakotomavo is forecasting a great scattering of votes during the May 17 general election [...]

Subscribers only 02.05.1998

FRANCE ALBERT RENE

The Seychelles head of state has been invited by Madagascar [...]

Subscribers only 02.05.1998

VICTORY MINING - A CLARIFICATION

Management of Victory Mining of Madagascar has reacted to an article in The Indian Ocean Newsletter entitled "Vancouver stock hits" [...]

Subscribers only 25.04.1998

ROGER VONY

As the general manager of Toamasina port (and former minister [...]

Subscribers only 25.04.1998

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HALT TO A SHIITE NETWORK

The arrest on Madagascar in January of seven members of the local Khoja (Shiite) community and Malagasy accomplices allegedly implicated in kidnapping operations with ransom demands may have brought into view a part of an international criminal network. Eighteen other [...]

Subscribers only 18.04.1998

ELECTIONS ON MAY 17

Madagascar's general elections will be held on May 17 (ION N° 807) under the new voting conditions laid down last [...]

Subscribers only 18.04.1998

SAME OL' ARMS TRADE

Two lorries loaded with firearms hidden under other merchandise and brought out of Toamasina port without exit documents were intercepted [...]

Subscribers only 18.04.1998

DANIEL BOURGERY

The Madagascar branch of BNI Credit Lyonnais has a new director general since the end of February, Daniel Bourgery. He [...]

Subscribers only 18.04.1998

ABSENCE OF POLITICAL VISIBILITY

The breakfast laid on in Paris on April 8 by Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur (CFCE) in the presence of [...]

Subscribers only 11.04.1998

KINGS OF THE DUTY FREE

Deputy prime minister (responsible for the budget and devolution) Pierrot Rajaonarivelo doesn't cheesepare when it comes to giving Malagasy companies [...]

Subscribers only 11.04.1998

VANCOUVER STOCK HITS

Several small Canadian mining companies with somewhat chequered stock exchange careers are trying to remake their financial health by taking [...]

Subscribers only 11.04.1998

NEW VOTING METHOD

Putting to good use the new powers conferred on him [...]

Subscribers only 11.04.1998

SLOWCOACH PRIVATIZATION

The consultant Price Waterhouse who prepared the privatization programme of Solima (petroleum products) according to a cession formula known as [...]

Subscribers only 04.04.1998

SALARY GUESSES

In order to prepare the government to reply to the claims of Malagasy civil servants, on strike with a demand [...]

Subscribers only 04.04.1998

NOT A TOP BRAND OF WHISKY

Jacques Bonnefoy, the French businessman in Antananarivo who met representatives of French oil major Elf in Paris on March 16 [...]

Subscribers only 28.03.1998

BRING ON THE MARCHING BANDS

A bilateral agreement on the promotion of investments between Madagascar and the United States will be initialled in grand pomp [...]

Subscribers only 28.03.1998

THE L'EMERAUDE CLAN

The skimpy "Yes" victory in Madagascar's March 15 constitutional referendum (ION N° 804) has left its marks in the government [...]

Subscribers only 28.03.1998

MANANDAFY RAKOTONIRINA

The MP (and leader of MFM party) managed to push [...]

Subscribers only 28.03.1998

NECK AND NECK IN THE BALLOT

After counting results in 75 percent of the polling stations in the evening of March 19, a "Yes" response was [...]

Subscribers only 21.03.1998

SOLICITING ELF

Head of state Didier Ratsiraka has mandated one of his occult advisers, French national Jacques Bonnefoy, to go to Paris [...]

Subscribers only 21.03.1998

TIMING OF MINING REFORM

International Development Association (IDA, a World Bank subsidiary) is considering issuing a loan of US$5 million for Madagascar to finance [...]

Subscribers only 21.03.1998

HORACE CONSTANT

Madagascar's minister for the private sector and privatization Horace Constant [...]

Subscribers only 21.03.1998

AIR MAD GOING PRIVATE

Nine foreign companies (British, French and US) have been pre-selected [...]

Subscribers only 21.03.1998

SHIRLEY ELIZABETH BARNES

It is Shirley Elizabeth Barnes who should replace (if the US Senate confirms the nomination) the former US ambassador to [...]

Subscribers only 14.03.1998

PRE-BALLOT TENSION

Social tension rose a little in Antananarivo this week on the eve of the constitutional referendum scheduled for March 15. [...]

Subscribers only 14.03.1998

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Madagascar

ELECTORAL SCATTERGUN

FRANCE ALBERT RENE

VICTORY MINING - A CLARIFICATION

ROGER VONY

Spotlight
HALT TO A SHIITE NETWORK

ELECTIONS ON MAY 17

SAME OL' ARMS TRADE

DANIEL BOURGERY

ABSENCE OF POLITICAL VISIBILITY

KINGS OF THE DUTY FREE

VANCOUVER STOCK HITS

NEW VOTING METHOD

SLOWCOACH PRIVATIZATION

SALARY GUESSES

NOT A TOP BRAND OF WHISKY

BRING ON THE MARCHING BANDS

THE L'EMERAUDE CLAN

MANANDAFY RAKOTONIRINA

NECK AND NECK IN THE BALLOT

SOLICITING ELF

TIMING OF MINING REFORM

HORACE CONSTANT

AIR MAD GOING PRIVATE

SHIRLEY ELIZABETH BARNES

PRE-BALLOT TENSION

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Madagascar

ELECTORAL SCATTERGUN

FRANCE ALBERT RENE

VICTORY MINING - A CLARIFICATION

ROGER VONY

Spotlight HALT TO A SHIITE NETWORK

ELECTIONS ON MAY 17

SAME OL' ARMS TRADE

DANIEL BOURGERY

ABSENCE OF POLITICAL VISIBILITY

KINGS OF THE DUTY FREE

VANCOUVER STOCK HITS

NEW VOTING METHOD

SLOWCOACH PRIVATIZATION

SALARY GUESSES

NOT A TOP BRAND OF WHISKY

BRING ON THE MARCHING BANDS

THE L'EMERAUDE CLAN

MANANDAFY RAKOTONIRINA

NECK AND NECK IN THE BALLOT

SOLICITING ELF

TIMING OF MINING REFORM

HORACE CONSTANT

AIR MAD GOING PRIVATE

SHIRLEY ELIZABETH BARNES

PRE-BALLOT TENSION

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HALT TO A SHIITE NETWORK