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As Christmas and the New Year’s Eve are nearing, candies, chocolates and other products of the same kind are abounding in the streets of Antananarivo. Unfortunately, these products don’t always meet the appropriate standards in terms of health. In light of that situation, the Ministry of Commerce and Public Health organized on December 18, at the Tranompokon’olona Isotry (Isotry Theater), ... Read More »

In recent times, major Banks in Madagascar have registered sharp increases of bank loan requests. In fact, while referring to the various campaigns and promotional publicities performed throughout the year, these financial institutions reported significant increase of 21% in bank loans during the Christmas and New Year’s Eve holidays. Bank loans in this particular time of the year can be ... Read More »

Every year, Transparency International publishes its corruption perception rating. And each year, Madagascar’s rank in that rating is worsening. According to this year’s official rating which was published last week, Madagascar is ranked 118th out of the 176 countries and territories investigated. Such ranking means that the Big Island is the 118th less corrupted country in the world. This year, ... Read More »

The vanilla production of this year 2012 appears to be productive and profitable to vanilla producers in the region of SAVA. While sold at 15000 MGA last year, the kilo of ripe vanilla is sold between 30000 and 40000 MGA this year. Also, last year producers in the SAVA (Sambava, Antalaha, Vohémar, Andapa) region produced about 1050 tonnes of exportable ... Read More »

Violence toward women is a universal phenomenon and happens in the daily life of every household. However, appalling figures have shown that violence based on gender (VBG) is more widespread in Madagascar than in any other countries. In fact, surveys showed that 32% of Malagasy women from 15 to 49 of age think that men have the right to beat ... Read More »

Officially launched on November 23, the Project “Information Technology for All” primarily aims at familiarizing children from disadvantaged backgrounds and their trainers with basic IT tools and Internet. In today’s information age, computers and internet have become indispensable tools in education. To this end, Telma Foundation decided to implement the project “IT for All” to make information and communication technology ... Read More »

A while ago, the Malagasy government suspended the issuance of exploitation license relating to all extractive industries in the country. Hence, many companies, while waiting for the issuance of their licenses, had to suspend the implementation of their exploitation projects, and that is despite the fact that the majority of these companies are currently processing the release of their financing. ... Read More »

Since the advent of the transition authority, the management of the public treasury has always been subjected to the policy of austerity. Concerned by and having experienced budget austerity during the last couple of years, members of the High Council of the Transition (CST) seriously addressed the issue while meeting the government team last Monday. They particularly asked the government ... Read More »

The union of court clerks of Madagascar held a General Assembly last week, during which they announced a 15-days general strike in case the response to their demand would not be satisfactory. As the deadline the union established expired on Monday, November 26, the union started off the general strike which was effective throughout the country. As a result of ... Read More »

Yesterday, the Dr Jean Joseph Randriamananoro, an apiarian engineer, organized a round-table with apiarists from the province of Tamatave during which he addressed the principal factor impeding the development of the sector in that particular region. In fact, during the round-table, Dr Randriamananoro identified the existence of the “varroua”, a parasite that eats bees, especially the queen, as the main ... Read More »