Madagascar

OBSTACLES LITTER REFERENDUM PATH

Madagascar's constitutional referendum, scheduled to take place on June 21, has still to overcome a number of problems. The first [...]

ROLAND RATSIMANDRESY

Formerly director general of the Office Militaire National pour les Industries Stratégiques (OMNIS), rear admiral Roland Ratsimandresy is reported to [...]

SIDY BERTHIN

Madagascar's chief superintendent has been nominated director general of the [...]

ALAIN RAMAROSON

The new director of communications in the cabinet of the [...]

JOANA RAVALOSON

Paris representative of the group that supports Albert Zafy, president [...]

REFERENDUM UNDER SURVEILLANCE

President of Madagascar's High State Authority, Albert Zafy and prime minister, Guy Razanamasy, sent a letter to the International Support [...]

BUDGET PLAN OFF TARGET

The postponement of Madagascar's negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, after a Bank delegation left [...]

DENNIS BARRET

President George Bush appointed Dennis Barret ambassador to Madagascar on [...]

ROGER RALISON

Vice president of Madagascar's High State Authority, he is expected [...]

FERTILIZER PROJECT EXAMINED

The Malagasy government is about to launch a feasibility study on a composite fertilizer plant (nitrogen and phosphate) with a [...]

AGRICULTURAL INPUTS PRODUCTION STUDY

Madagascar's government is considering a feasibility study for an agricultural inputs production plant on the western coast of the island [...]

ROBERT RABEMANANTSOA

General of the flying squad, he is the first air force member to become chief-of-staff of the Malagasy army. He [...]

BANKING PROJECT ON THE LINE

The project to set up a joint venture between the Standard Bank of South Africa and Mauritius Commercial, to establish [...]

Economic growth was down by 6% in Madagascar last year. [...]

MANANDAFY RAKOTONIRINA

Co-president of the Economic and Social Recovery Committee in Madagascar, [...]

Spotlight
RATSIRAKA'S TRIALS & TRIBULATIONS

For a year now, Madagascar's President, Didier Ratsiraka has been a virtual recluse, living in his palace-cum-bunker, twelve kilometres from the capital. He was further marginalised at the beginning of 1992, when the transitional institutions were set up.

IRAN OIL CONTRACT LOSES ITS APPEAL

The oil contract between Iran and Madagascar under the terms of which the Gulf country is expected to supply Madagascar [...]

IRANIAN CRUDE: COMPLICATIONS

The talks that Madagascar undertook with Tehran early in March for the supply of 2 million tons per year of [...]

GUY RAZANAMASY

Fearing more clashes if the MMSM leaders Monja Joana, seriously [...]