Madagascar

BAD FISH AND MISSING FISH

The first cargo of tuna imported this year by the Pêche et Froid cold storage company in Antseranana (Diego Suarez) [...]

BETIANA BRUNO

Madagascar's energy and mining minister recently announced the signature with [...]

BERNARD ZIMMERMANN

French cooperation ministry has decided to second a Bank of [...]

MOUHAMADY ALLAOUI

The Comoros public prosecutor, Mouhamady Allaoui, recently returned home empty-handed after a special judicial mission to Mahajanga (Madagascar). He had [...]

PREMIER GOES TO PARIS

Returning from the United Nations international conference on population and development held recently in Cairo, Malagasy prime minister Francisque Ravony [...]

JAONA RAVALOSON

A presidential decree signed by the head of state Albert [...]

Flamco International, a company headed by prince Constantin Von Liechtenstein, [...]

NEW GOLD TRADING AGENCY

A trading agency dealing in gold is to be set up by the ministry of mines in parallel with a [...]

ZAFY IN PORT LOUIS

Malagasy head of state Albert Zafy made an official visit to Mauritius from August 29 to September first, accompanied by [...]

SAGA OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE

Several sessions of the new Malagasy government set up by prime minister Francisque Ravony (ION N° 635) were necessary last [...]

JEAN-DIDIER ROISIN

French ambassador to Mali Jean-Didier Roisin is expected to take up a new appointment shortly as France's ambassador to Madagascar, [...]

NO CREDIT FOR BANK GOVERNOR

Madagascar's recent ministerial reshuffle (ION N° 635) may see the departure of the governor of the Madagascar central bank, Raoul [...]

Spotlight
THE MOUNTAIN GIVES BIRTH TO A MOUSE

After several weeks of political haggling during which some 120 potential candidates for ministerial posts were interviewed, Madagascar's prime minister Francisque Ravony finally presented on August 19 the second litter of his first legislature. Made up of twenty-four ministers (including [.

ALBERT ZAFY

Head of state Albert Zafy is expected to arrive on [...]

A BRAKE ON DECENTRALIZATION

Invited this week to give the government's local authorities' decentralization bill its second reading, Madagascar's MPs slammed on all brakes [...]

A POISONED CHALICE

When Madagascar's prime minister Francisque Ravony managed to get a strong majority of MPs to vote on July 20 against [...]

JACQUES SYLLA

Madagascar's foreign minister, who is the current chairman of the [...]

CENSURE MOTION FLOPS

The censure motion against the government of prime minister Francisque Ravony tabled in parliament by thirty-one MPs on July 12 [...]

A World Bank consultative group meeting on Madagascar will be [...]