Madagascar

RACE FOR THE PRESIDENCY IS ON

The Malagasy government ratified the electoral code on September 16, that will regulate the presidential election. The article in the [...]

ROGER RALISON

The vice president of the Haute Autorité de l'Etat (High State Authority) in Madagascar, this week called for company directors [...]

ABU ZOBAA

Former International Monetary Fund, director in Antananarivo from 1984 to [...]

ANTI-ZAFY CAMPAIGN LED BY MERINAS

A group of major bank and business directors as well as former magistrates held a private meeting in the capital [...]

ALBERT ZAFY

The president of the High State Authority in Madagascar, one of the interim decision-making bodies, has been designated as the [...]

RAY FERGUSSON

Following the publication of an article in the Mauritian press, associating businessman Ray Fergusson with the South African diplomatic representation [...]

MINING COMMITTEE ALREADY UNDER FIRE

The 72-member national mining committee, half of whom have fixed seats, that was appointed last month by energy and mining [...]

The World Food Programme has pledged to increase its emergency [...]

One of President Didier Ratsiraka's bodyguards died this week and [...]

LIVA RAMAHAZOMANAMA

Arrested with the man she claims is her husband, a [...]

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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

Despite the disorder created by the "federalists" in the days leading up to the constitutional referendum in Madagascar, notably in Antseranana and Toamasina, ballot of August 19 finally took place in a peaceful atmosphere, with a 76 percent turnout, and [.

TOVONANAHARY RABETSITONTA

An outsider in the presidential race in Madagascar, although an official candidate, this man is a brilliant demographer and statistician, [...]

With the upcoming elections in Madagascar, president of the High [...]

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RADIO BUFFS

The occupation of the Antananarivo radio station is old hat (it's been done twice in recent history; on 24 July 1989 and on 13 May 1990, ION N°431), but what makes the taking of the Malagasy national radio station on [.

FETY MICHEL

The man who proclaimed himself President of the Republic in a pre-recorded message that was broadcast over the Malagasy airwaves [...]

BUDGET FOR 1992 MAKES APPEARANCE

Madagascar's High State Authority, presided over by Albert Zafy has ratified the 1992 finance bill, on condition that the Financial [...]

JOSE ANDRIANOELISON

According to the daily Midi Madagascar President Didier Ratsiraka has appointed Jose Andrianoelison to represent him on the National Electoral [...]

PRIVATISING INDUSTRY NOT SO EASY

Of the 165 parastatals in Madagascar, about fifty are currently undergoing the privatisation process, or would be if the State [...]

HERIZO RAZAFIMAHALEO

Adviser to President Didier Ratsiraka and a member of his party, Arema, Herizo Razafimahaleo has co-founded a political association known [...]