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Air Madagascar has stopped paying Meridiam

Tensions between Madagascar's government and the consortium running the country's two main airports have been heightened by tax arrears going back for up to eight months. [...] (358 words)

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Infrastructures Business

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Andry Rajoelina
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Colas
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Ivato airport inauguration carefully crafted to reconcile president's office with Meridiam and ADP

Great care is being taken over the organisation of Ivato airport terminal's inauguration ceremony, which should end two years of hostilities between Madagascar's president and Ravinala consortium, a joint venture between France's Meridiam infrastructure fund and Groupe ADP. [...]

MADAGASCAR Infrastructures Business 16/11/2021

Rajoelina negotiates compromise with Meridiam-owned Ravinala Airports

After giving it the cold shoulder for two years, the Madagascan presidency is about to put an end to hostilities with French consortium Ravinala Airports. The group, which manages Ivato and Nosy Be airports, is a joint-venture between Aéroports de Paris and the Meridiam infrastructure fund. [...]

Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina. © Twitter/@SE_Rajoelina

MADAGASCAR Business 28/01/2021

Repatriation plans could be stepping stone to Air Madagascar-Ethiopian Airlines alliance

After getting the cold shoulder from Paris, the national carrier Air Madagascar has turned to Ethiopian Airlines in the hope of forming a partnership that will help it stay afloat. [...]

AFRICA Infrastructures Finance Business 23/11/2020

Meridiam prepares its new fund for Africa

Meridiam is putting together its next fund for Africa, which has to be approved by the financial markets authority (AMF) by the end of the year. [...]

MADAGASCAR Infrastructures Business 11/11/2020

ADP and Rajoelina clash over airport security provider

Ravinala, the consortium led by Aéroports de Paris that runs the airports serving Antananarivo and Nosy Be, wants the government to ditch CSPI-M as these facilities' security provider. [...]

The new international terminal in Ivato, November 2019. © Ravinala-airports

MADAGASCAR Business 24/09/2020

Rajoelina appoints advisor as head of his Covid remedy laboratory

Gambling his international image on the properties of the anti-Covid infusion that he has been promoting relentlessly, Andry Rajoelina has parachuted an ally, Holijaona Raboana, in as head of Pharmalagasy, the laboratory that will make the miracle product. [...]

President of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina. © STR/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

MADAGASCAR Business 27/08/2020

Rajoelina's advisor misses out on top job at Air Mad

Now that Madagascar's national social insurance fund has taken over Air Austral's stake in Air Madagascar, the national airline is preparing to appoint a new chief executive to bolster its freight activities and establish a partnership with Ethiopian Airlines. [...]

MADAGASCAR Business 04/06/2020

Air Madagascar's planes nowhere to be seen

On the verge of collapse, Air Madagascar's two main aircraft are grounded. But President Rajoelina wants to take a page from Ethiopian Airlines' book and relaunch his national carrier with a new focus on cargo. [...]

One of the two Air Madagascar A340s. © Maarten Visser/Flickr

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