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Madagascar

JACKSON TIAMANA

A tough game of Go has just been fought out between brigadier Jackson Tiamana and brigadier Marcel Ranjeva. The latter [...]

Subscribers only 27.07.1996

PRIME MINISTER'S CABINET

Madagascar's prime minister Norbert Ratsirahonana has now appointed almost all his advisers. The secretary general of his cabinet is the [...]

Subscribers only 27.07.1996

ZAFY IMPEACHMENT VOTE

The motion to impeach head of state Albert Zafy was [...]

Subscribers only 27.07.1996

WHERE HAS THE GOLD GONE?

The leader of the opposition MFM party, Manandafy Rakotonirina, has [...]

Subscribers only Energy 24.07.1996

SHRIMPS AND DIPLOMATS

In addition to the difficulties of Aquaculture de Menabe (ION N° 726), the Malagasy shrimp fishing sector is witnessing a [...]

Subscribers only 20.07.1996

ZAFY IS TIRED

Head of state Albert Zafy showed unmistakable signs of tiredness during recent discussions with the World Bank mission led by [...]

Subscribers only 20.07.1996

GROWING INSECURITY

Antananarivo has suddenly become a city torn by latent insecurity [...]

Subscribers only 20.07.1996

SOMETHING NEW IN COASTAL TRADE

SCAC Delmas Vieljeux, a subsidiary of the French Bolloré group, [...]

Subscribers only 20.07.1996

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ZAFY UNDER FRESH ATTACK

After forcing a government largely dominated by his own UNDD party on prime minister Norbert Ratsirahonana (ION 721) President Albert Zafy finds himself facing an ever more hostile parliament. Since he was dropped successively by Alain Ramaroson of Forces Vives [.

Subscribers only 13.07.1996

JACQUES GAZON

The former French ambassador to Equatorial Guinea (1989-1994), Jacques Gazon, is being tipped in some official circles in Madagascar as [...]

Subscribers only 13.07.1996

BILL ON POLITICAL PARTIES

Prime minister Norbert Ratsirahonana on June 11 sent interior and decentralization minister Manahira Noharisoa a draft Bill ("Study and government [...]

Subscribers only 06.07.1996

DEVOLUTION BREAKDOWN

The French consultants working on the financing package of the World Bank (René Dosière and Claude Durand-Prinborgne) in collaboration with [...]

Subscribers only 06.07.1996

FISHERIES FUEL JEALOUSY

The aquaculture project of Aquamen, which stems from an association between former Malagasy industrial promotion and tourism minister Herizo Razafimahaleo [...]

Subscribers only 06.07.1996

RAKOTOVAHINY REBOUNDS

Former Malagasy prime minister Emmanuel Rakotovahiny has just been appointed "supervisor general" to head of state Albert Zafy, a post [...]

Subscribers only 29.06.1996

IMBE JACOB

Madagascar's permanent representative to UNESCO in Paris (with the personal rank of ambassador), Imbe Jacob returned to Antananarivo in a [...]

Subscribers only 29.06.1996

CONSOLATION PRIZE ONLY

AKFM-Fanavaozana (Renewal), the political formation headed by national assembly chairman Reverend Richard Andriamanjato which fared badly in the new government [...]

Subscribers only 22.06.1996

SOME AID IN SIGHT

The European Union representative on Madagascar, Guy Petitpierre, announced on June 19 that the EU's provisional national programme for Madagascar, [...]

Subscribers only 22.06.1996

RATSIRAHONANA DISOWNED ALREADY

Incoming prime minister Norbert Ratsirahonana received his first snub on June 11 when the newly-appointed government tabled its general policy [...]

Subscribers only 15.06.1996

RATSIRAKA COURTED

Former Malagasy president Didier Ratsiraka, who is currently living in [...]

Subscribers only 15.06.1996

UNDD GOVERNMENT

The product of an unequal mix of two lists of possible future ministers, with 23 names submitted by prime minister [...]

Subscribers only 08.06.1996

TROUBLE WITH SOTEMA

During a recent meeting of conciliation in Paris under the [...]

Subscribers only 08.06.1996

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MADAGASCAR: ZAFY'S LAST CARD

The choice that head of state Albert Zafy made on May 28 of Norbert Lala Ratsirahonana as prime minister is the least bad card he could pick from the hand of candidates for the post.

Subscribers only 01.06.1996

NORBERT RATSIRAHONANA

Recognized as one of the country's most honest and upright citizens, with a forceful personality to boot (which might fare [...]

Subscribers only 25.05.1996

PERHAPS A MERINA PRIME MINISTER

The motion of censure on the government voted through parliament by a massive majority of 109 (with 15 against and [...]

Subscribers only 25.05.1996

EXXON'S BAD TEMPER

In the framework of the liberalization of Madagascar's energy sector, [...]

Subscribers only 25.05.1996

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Madagascar

JACKSON TIAMANA

PRIME MINISTER'S CABINET

ZAFY IMPEACHMENT VOTE

WHERE HAS THE GOLD GONE?

SHRIMPS AND DIPLOMATS

ZAFY IS TIRED

GROWING INSECURITY

SOMETHING NEW IN COASTAL TRADE

Spotlight
ZAFY UNDER FRESH ATTACK

JACQUES GAZON

BILL ON POLITICAL PARTIES

DEVOLUTION BREAKDOWN

FISHERIES FUEL JEALOUSY

RAKOTOVAHINY REBOUNDS

IMBE JACOB

CONSOLATION PRIZE ONLY

SOME AID IN SIGHT

RATSIRAHONANA DISOWNED ALREADY

RATSIRAKA COURTED

UNDD GOVERNMENT

TROUBLE WITH SOTEMA

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MADAGASCAR: ZAFY'S LAST CARD

NORBERT RATSIRAHONANA

PERHAPS A MERINA PRIME MINISTER

EXXON'S BAD TEMPER

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Madagascar

JACKSON TIAMANA

PRIME MINISTER'S CABINET

ZAFY IMPEACHMENT VOTE

WHERE HAS THE GOLD GONE?

SHRIMPS AND DIPLOMATS

ZAFY IS TIRED

GROWING INSECURITY

SOMETHING NEW IN COASTAL TRADE

Spotlight ZAFY UNDER FRESH ATTACK

JACQUES GAZON

BILL ON POLITICAL PARTIES

DEVOLUTION BREAKDOWN

FISHERIES FUEL JEALOUSY

RAKOTOVAHINY REBOUNDS

IMBE JACOB

CONSOLATION PRIZE ONLY

SOME AID IN SIGHT

RATSIRAHONANA DISOWNED ALREADY

RATSIRAKA COURTED

UNDD GOVERNMENT

TROUBLE WITH SOTEMA

Spotlight MADAGASCAR: ZAFY'S LAST CARD

NORBERT RATSIRAHONANA

PERHAPS A MERINA PRIME MINISTER

EXXON'S BAD TEMPER

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