Madagascar

MAURICE GRIMAUD

According to the Reunion Island monthly L'Enjeu, Maurice Grimaud is believed to be getting ready to become head of the [...]

THE FISHY STORY CONTINUES

A delegation from Union des Pêcheurs de Madagascar (UPAM), the trade federation headed by Ranaivo Désiré which is fighting a [...]

The question of keeping the present government in place until [...]

ZAFY TAKES THE BIT

At the first council of ministers on April 16, chaired by the new Malagasy President, Albert Zafy, recalled "the imperative [...]

NEW IMPORT PROCEDURE

A new import procedure that was decreed in January in madagascar, will come into force on May 1. Imported goods [...]

JACQUES SYLLA

The son of a minister of foreign affairs in the [...]

The Malagasy council of ministers decided on April 21, to [...]

CESAIRE RABENORO

The Malagasy foreign minister is to visit Paris during the [...]

President Albert Zafy, addressing his council of ministers for the [...]

PRESIDENTIAL SECURITY MARKETS

New Malagasy President Albert Zafy wants a mobile radio and telephone liaison system to improve his autonomous communications with notably [...]

ELECTIONS LIKELY TO BE POSTPONED

Legislative elections in Madagascar, slated for May 5, are probably going to be postponed until June. Several ministers in Guy [...]

ANDRIAMANJATO'S RECOVERY PLANS

During the visit to the French capital, last week of Richard Andriamanjato, the co-president of Madagascar's Comité de Redressement Economique [...]

SHRIMP WAR

Madagacar's prime minister, Guy Razanamasy sent a letter on march 12 to his minister of fishing resources, to convey "complaints" [...]

RICHARD ANDRIAMANJATO

Reverend Richard Andriamanjato told The Indian Ocean Newsletter in Paris [...]

LIFTING GATES ON IMPORTS?

The caretaker government has decided to liberalize oil imports following the election of Albert Zafy as president and as the [...]

THE FRENCH VS. THE WORLD BANK

The plan to revamp Madagascar's tele-communications system that was adopted after lengthy negotiations in early December 1992 (ION N°557) does [...]

The International Development Association (IDA) a World Bank affiliate, has [...]

Spotlight
PRE-ELECTION MANOEUVRES

The final stage in Madagascar's political transition towards its thrid republic is just around the corner. On May 5, the general elections (182 seats distributed among 68 constituencies) will lead the way to a parliamentary system, but probably without a [.

RICHARD ANDRIAMANJATO

The co-president of the Comité de Redressement Economique et Social [...]