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Madagascar

The government lines up a new partner in Madarail

After several months of stalemate, a solution for selling Mamy Ravatomanga's shares in Madarail may have been found as a potential new partner emerges.

Subscribers only Business 01.12.2017

Willy Rakotomalala washes his dirty linen in public

The businessman and adviser to President Hery Rajaonarimampianina, Willy Rakotomalala, is involved in a major business spat with his partner [...]

Subscribers only Business 01.12.2017

BGFI's continuing interest in BMOI

The announcement by Jean-Pierre Levayer, the chief executive of BPCE [...]

Subscribers only Business 01.12.2017

The president already imagines his dreams with AfDB as come time

By announcing that the African Development Bank (AfDB) plans to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.11.2017

Who are the Karana friends of the Ravalomananas?

Marc Ravalomanana and his wife are increasingly surrounding themselves with Karana businessmen whose financial support will be valuable to him [...]

Subscribers only Politics 17.11.2017

Stormy times ahead for an Aquamas director

The shareholders of Aquamas, a crustacean and shrimp farming company, are in the eye of the storm. One of them, [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.11.2017

The Ambohimanambola power station is non-compliant

Inaugurated in great pomp by President Hery Rajaonarimampianina on 7 [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.11.2017

Hassanein Hiridjee and Senegal on different wavelengths

The dispute, already several months old, which is pitting the [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.11.2017

Progress in the dispute between Polo Garments Majunga and the government

Might there be light at the end of the tunnel [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.11.2017

China's CHEC is getting impatient

President Hery Rajaonarimampianina is anxious not to antagonise Chinese investors [...]

Subscribers only Business 17.11.2017

Will the president defy the UN?

The opening on 26 October of the workshop to report back on the findings of the interministerial committee in charge [...]

Subscribers only Politics 03.11.2017

Politicians waste no time appropriating Albert Zafy's legacy

The death of the former Madagascan president Albert Zafy on 13 October has prompted a number of the country's politicians [...]

Subscribers only Politics 03.11.2017

Hary Razafindrazaka to slash costs at Jirama

To refill the empty coffers at the state electricity company Jirama, its chief executive Aime Olivier Jaomiary has recruited a [...]

Subscribers only 03.11.2017

Spotlight
A president (virtually) alone in his ivory tower

With a presidential election in principle due next year, although no firm date has yet been set, President Hery Rajaonarimampianina's regime is showing increasing signs of febrility. The outbreak of pneumonic plague in Madagascar, which began in late August, is [.

Subscribers only Politics 20.10.2017

Hery Rajaonarimampianina.

Willy Rakotomalala, the Chinese miners' friend

The Chinese mining company Jiuxing, which ceased operations at the Soamahamanina gold concession in the centre of the country in [...]

Subscribers only Business 20.10.2017

The media march to the beat of their owners' drum

As the next election draws nearer, each party is sharpening its media weapons in order to drive its message home to voters.

Subscribers only Business 20.10.2017

Harinjaka Ratozamanana rises up through the government ranks

In joining the government as its new director general of [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.10.2017

Imperial Tobacco installs a new man in the top job in Antananarivo

Until recently the managing director of Imperial Tobacco in Burkina [...]

Subscribers only Business 20.10.2017

Siemens' sweet dreams in Antananarivo

The German group has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Malagasy state to bulk up the country's power grid. But it's far from in the bag!

Subscribers only Energy 10.10.2017

Ravalomanana's debt sours relations with Delhi

No sooner had President Hery Rajaonarimampianina announced the imminent visit of the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi to Madagascar than [...]

Subscribers only Politics 06.10.2017

Olivier Varvatsoulis, the president's digital adviser

The Madagascan president, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, has recently bolstered an already ample team of advisers (ION 1450). According to our sources, [...]

Subscribers only 06.10.2017

The first lady's brother in law starts a new job in Berlin

Faly Rabenarivo, who is married to the sister of the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 06.10.2017

The president squares up to the IMF over money laundering

The Madagascan president Hery Rajaonarimampianina is putting up resistance to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 06.10.2017

From Ankara to Antananarivo for H&K Cem?

The Turkish company H&K Cem, based in Ankara, is seriously [...]

Subscribers only Business 06.10.2017

Air Austral has a new boss in mind for Air Madagascar

The Réunion Island airline Air Austral , which is due [...]

Subscribers only Business 22.09.2017

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