Madagascar

GOLD-PLATINUM PROJECT WITH BRGM

AEM has learned that negotiations are underway with two international [...]

MARZLIAKOV Y. NICOLAEVICH

The new Russian ambassador in Antananarivo is 44 years old and a career diplomat. Marzliakov Yuri Nicolaevich also has been [...]

FRANCESCO SCIORTINO

Born in 1942, and a graduate of Law, the new Italian ambassador in the Malagasy capital, Antantanarivo launched into his [...]

The June 16 legislative elections in Madagascar were marked by [...]

CRAWLING OUT OF THE WOODWORK

The campaign, that opened last week, for legislative elections in Madagascar on June 16, encouraged a certain number of cases [...]

FRANCESCO SCIORTINO

The Malagasy government has accepted the appointment of Francesco Sciortino [...]

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OPEN BALLOT

The legislative election campaign in Madagascar opened this week just two weeks ahead of the vote due on June 16, the result of which appears to be impossible to predict, mainly because of the large number of candidates (some of [.

RAKOTONIRINA MANANDAFY

The co-president of the Comité de Redressement Economique et Social (CRES) and losing MFM candidate in the first round of [...]

President Albert Zafy recently acquired a ten-person personal security team [...]

SYLVAIN RABOTOARISON

The Malagasy minister of the interior recently visited Paris where [...]

COTTON MARKET SHAKE-UP

The head of the Délégation Générale du Gouvernement pour les Privatisations in Madagascar (DGGP), Renaud Rajaonah, arrived in Paris this [...]

DIPLOMATIC FLURRY

The Malagasy government, on May 19, established official diplomatic ties with South Korea. Discussions are underway for the procedural exchange [...]

TWELVE-PROGRAMME $400 M CREDIT

While Madagascar is slowly emerging from a lengthy political transition process, discussions on development project aid is back on the [...]

EMMANUEL RAKOTOVAHINY

Malagasy President Albert Zafy's party, Union Nationale pour le Développement et la Démocratie (UNDD) recently held its first national congress. [...]

French hotel firm Accor is considering starting up in Madagascar [...]

The OPEC International Development Fund has approved a loan of [...]

TELECOM PROJECTS GET BANK GO-AHEAD

After a mission from the French Caisse Française de Développement (CFD) in Antananarivo, last week, the recent dispute between the [...]

ANDRE TERRAZZONI

A detached prefect since 1987, close to the Rassemblement pour la République (RPR) led by Paris' mayor Jacques Chirac, and [...]

ENERGY PROJECT UNDER NEGOTIATION

A mission from the International Development Agency (IDA), World Bank affiliate is due to arrive in the capital of Madagascar, [...]