Madagascar

LAST CHANCE

A top-rank mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is due in Antananarivo on May 19 for what already looks [...]

ALBERT ZAFY

Speaking at a news conference in Antananarivo on April 26 [...]

ONE VISIT HIDES THE NEXT

Official and unofficial counsellors were arguing this week with staff of Madagascar's embassy in France over protocol for the head [...]

The European Union has allocated ECU1.9 million (about US$2.2 million) [...]

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PROMISSORY NOTES

Madagascar's struggles to find funds on the international financial market independently of credit lines negotiated through the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund or various bilateral fund donors have aroused the interest of some financiers specializing in unorthodox financial packages.

ZAFY IN STRASBOURG

Madagascar's head of state, Albert Zafy, will visit the Strasbourg offices of the European Union on May 2 at the [...]

THE PRESIDENT'S MEN

President Albert Zafy is gradually "legalizing" his staff by officially naming his counsellors and collaborators and by creating a general [...]

ARGUMENTS OVER VANILLA PRICES

Comoros Islands head of state Said Mohamed Djohar was in Antananarivo on April 11 to meet his Malagasy opposite number [...]

TIME TO START ALL OVER AGAIN

Madagascar's prime minister, Francisque Ravony, got down to talking with officials of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in [...]

ALBERT ZAFY

Counsellors of president Albert Zafy are believed to be leading [...]

GASOLINE DISTRIBUTION STILL PROBLEMATIC

The distribution of oil products has improved in recent weeks [...]

AIRLINE AGREEMENTS

The airlines Air Mauritius and Air Madagascar recently concluded an agreement for joint operations on the Mauritius - Antananarivo route [...]

MYRTILLE D'HUMIERES

The wife of the French ambassador in Antananarivo, Gilles D'Humières, [...]

THE NEW 1994 FINANCE LAW

Madagascar's national assembly was this week due to modify the 1994 finance act which had been voted at the end [...]

ARMAND RAZAFINDRATANDRA

The bishop of Mahajanga has been named archbishop metropolitan of Antananarivo. Born in August 1925 in a Christian family, Armand [...]

PRESIDENTIAL TV CHANNEL

Madagascar's head of state, Albert Zafy, did not like the national television channel's presentation of his message to the nation [...]

The World Bank report on structural adjustment in African countries, [...]

NORTHERNERS RAPPED

In a message to the nation delivered on March 4, the head of state, Albert Zafy, strongly condemned "all the [...]

The South African betting board and a private Malagasy consortium [...]