The Fahazavàna radio sanctioned by the ministry for communication23/12/2009 | 13:08:03
"...One month of suspension for the news bulletin and the political program Ampenjika". So read the sanction inflicted upon the Fahazavàna radio, the single one station close to the ousted president Marc Ravalomanana, the single still working one.
For several weeks, partisans of the High Authority of Transition have been calling upon silencing the Fahazavàna radio for good. Andry Rajoelina's collaborators even sharply criticized the minister for communication, Nathalie Rabe, for failing to punish this radio channel belonging to the FJKM reformed church.
Now it is a done deal. The political program Ampenjika and the Fahazavàna radio's news bulletin are, henceforth, suspended for one month. Ampenjika has been granting live interventions to listeners. So the authorities used a listener's "incitation to violence" against the station to justify the sanction. The listener would have called upon political mobilities' demonstrators opposed to Rajoelina to carry and throw stones at the police forces in front of the National assembly's palace.
The minister for communication, Nathalie Rabe, intervened live on television and on national radio waves, in the evening of December 22nd, to make the sanctioning of the Fahazavàna radio public, in the name of the Superior Audiovisual Council.
Since the havoc and the closing of pro-Ravalomanana media groups as MBS and Mada, the Fahazavàna radio was the single last remaining radio station to echo demonstrations in favour of the ousted president.
The High Authority of Transition’s top spokesman is now one of the Malagasy press’ very famous reporter. Rolly Mercia is his name, editor in chief for the La Verite daily newspaper, and political presenter for Andry Rajoelina’s Viva radio station.[See]
Georges Ranaivosoa, reporter, founder of the « Revue de l’Ocean Indien” and skilled businessman, has died on June the 08th in Antananarivo at the age of 76 years old. The Malagasy press has lost one more of its leading figures.[See]
Since one week, six journalists and two employees from the Fahazavàna radio station are in criminal brigade custody. The Midi Madagascar newspaper recently reported that they started a hunger strike, the information swiftly denied by the police forces.[See]
As an ending chapter to one to the capital city's chaos day, the last servicing radio channel supportive of Marc Ravalomanana was silenced by the High Authority of Transition, in the evening of May 20th.[See]
After a couple of days offline, the Frequence Plus radio channel is resuming...tries. Regular services will definitely resume later according to the leadership[See]
The incident induced by the arrest of three of the opposition's politicians in the Frequence Plus radio station's facilities is shaking the capital city's media world.[See]
What the Malagasy press has been undergoing is rather strange. Journalists are searching for solidarity which happens to be increasingly hard to capitalize. The political crisis had the upper hand there too.[See]
Media stations closed or burnt down by supporters of the High Authority of Transition have definitely vanished for one year. Now they are, however, likely to be on their way to recovery. the madagascan journalists' union members addressed the issue onto Nathalie Rabe, the HAT communication minister.[See]
The detention of some colleagues in the run of the year 2009 political crisis has led to the foundation of a club called the Union of Madagascan Journalists. The Union is sensitizing each and everyone on journalists' duty in the Malagasy society.[See]
