Madagascar

RUCKUS WITH FORCES VIVES

The political department of Forces Vives Rasalama, an unofficial structure stemming from the popular movement which overthrew the regime of [...]

PRESIDENT ZAFY IN CHINA

Madagascar's head of state Albert Zafy was due to fly to China this week at the invitation of the Beijing [...]

Madagascar's finance minister Jose Yvon Raserijaona last week announced the [...]

ILMENITE PROJECT STILL BOGGED DOWN

The Toalagnaro ilmenite project has been unable to get off the ground following the hiatus caused by a long period [...]

A REVERSAL FOR PREMIER IN PARLIAMENT

Malagasy prime minister Francisque Ravony was prevented this week from presenting parliament with the programme of economic reforms which his [...]

RAYMOND RAOELINA

The career diplomat is tipped as Madagascar's next ambassador in Paris. Aged 58, Raymond Raoelina began his career in his [...]

SUBSIDY FROM IFC FOR BRED FUND

International Finance Corporation, the subsidiary of the World Bank responsible for aid to the private sector, on May 31 approved [...]

CYCLONE DAMAGE REPAIRS

The International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's subsidiary for private sector aid, was due to decide on June 9 [...]

HOWARD T. PERLOW

After having served for two years as "Mister Africa" in the United States embassy in Paris, Howard Perlow will be [...]

PEYRE AFFAIR IS ROCKING THE BOAT

After having been postponed twice (March 22 and May 10) because witnesses were not present in the court, the trial [...]

NEW YORK LIES JUST OVER THERE...

In the first three months of 1994, no less than ten businessmen went to see the trade attache at the [...]

At the end of a visit to Antananarivo by a [...]

ROADS FINANCED BY EDF

The European Development Fund (EDF), which is made up of European Union member-countries, is to examine an aid programme of [...]

BLUNDERS OF ZAFY'S VISIT

The recent official visit to Paris by president Albert Zafy (May 16 to 19, see ION N° 624) was marked [...]

GILLES D'HUMIERES

The French ambassador in Antananarivo who has been much decried [...]

A delegation from the Tropical Africa Advisory Group (TAAG) of [...]

Spotlight
RECIPROCAL MISTRUST

By taking his place at the head of the Malagasy delegation which renewed the dialogue with the Bretton Woods institutions in Washington at the beginning of April, the prime minister Francisque Ravony has tied his future to the results of [.

Association pour le Développement des Echanges Economiques France-Madagascar (ADEFM) is [...]

A colonel of France's Gendarmerie Nationale is expected to go [...]