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TV digital migration contract brings out big field players

Akbaraly's Sipromad, Pirbay's Gulfsat and China's Huawei and StarTimes are all keenly interested in a lucrative contract to convert Madagascar's analogue television broadcasting technology to digital. [...] (397 words)

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Old real estate row poisons relations between powerful Hiridjee and Razaali clans

First cousins Hassanein Hiridjee, of the Axian group, and Goulam and Irchad Razaali, of EDL, have feuded for decades over a plot of land in Antananarivo. Just as the Razaali siblings were about to regain possession of the land, a top prosecutor curiously did an about-face.

CHINA MADAGASCAR Business 13/10/2021

China Machinery maintains its presence in Antananarivo

Following its work for Huawei, China Machinery Corp, a semi-public linchpin of Chinese engineering and infrastructure, is setting up shop in Madagascar.

AFRICA FRANCE Business 27/09/2021

Africa2020 sponsors to dine with Emmanuel Macron

President Macron will mark the end of the Africa2020 season by inviting the financiers and companies that sponsored the multidisciplinary pan-African project to the Elysée Palace.

MOZAMBIQUE Infrastructure Business 28/07/2021

BCS Group wants to run Mozambique's fibre optics

The east African fibre optic specialist Bandwidth & Cloud Services Group (BCS Group) decided to set up shop in Maputo at the beginning of June.

MADAGASCAR Business 11/06/2021

Alibaba, Sipromad, and Pangea IT eager to work on World Bank's digitalisation project

The calls for tender for Prodigy, the project to digitalise Madagascar's institutions, have not yet been launched, but Sipromad, Alibaba and Pangea IT are already keen to get a slice of the $143m the World Bank is contributing to the scheme.

MADAGASCAR Politics 31/05/2021

President hires PR guru to promote his herbal Covid 'remedy'

Malagasy President Andry Rajoelina is not giving up on the potion that he claims can cure and prevent Covid-19, and has ordered his new public relations advisor to restore its battered reputation.

Patrick Rajoelina, public relations advisor.

MADAGASCAR Diplomacy 25/05/2021

Beijing busy building bridges in Antananarivo

Chinese ambassador Guo Xiaomei is mounting a diplomatic offensive to forge ties with Rajoelina's government and his IRD party.

Chinese ambassador to Madagascar, Guo Xiaomei.

MADAGASCAR Business 18/05/2021

Country's elite turn their backs on president's potion in favour of vaccines

Until recently, President Andry Rajoelina had long advocated using the "national remedy" of an Artemisia-based infusion to protect against and cure Covid-19. Madagascar's bigwigs, meanwhile, are doing all they can to vaccinate their families.

MADAGASCAR Mining 13/05/2021

Rio Tinto pushes its agenda in tax renegotiations

QMM, Rio Tinto's division in Madagascar, has scheduled bi-monthly meetings with authorities to discuss its fiscal regime, up for renewal, and recruited a brand new communications team, as well as agency 35° Nord to reinforce public relations over the next year.

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MADAGASCAR Politics 23/11/2020

Madagascar's luxury golf courses offer a fairway to power

Unlike in the rest of Africa, where golf is often seen as a leftover from the colonial period, Madagascar's political and business elites like to meet up over a round of golf. Andry Rajoelina's government has taken advantage of this parallel power structure to build up a solid support network.

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