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In the next few days, the placement agency called, “Global Service Recruitment” (GSR), will be established in the province of Mahajanga. It will undertake all the procedures relating to the recruitment of young people in that region to work in Saudi Arabia. The establishment of the agency was officially announced during the meeting between the Chief of the Boeny region, ... Read More »

In spite of the explanations and reports provided by the military forces regarding their military intervention in the south of Madagascar, as part of the fight against zebu thieves and smugglers who have increasingly spread terrors in that particular region for some time now, observers, both national and international, continue to react toward the recent military operation known as “Tandroka”. ... Read More »

Since November 20, training workshop on the promotion to a wider public of the social security code, known as CPS, has been held in Antananarivo which is organized by the social actions and sanitary service of the CNaps, located in 67Ha. The workshop is the 29th training offered by CNaps which, for this year, is part of the annual implementation ... Read More »

Groupe Developpement Madagascar (Madagascar Development Group), known as GDM, carries on its ongoing investigation regarding the prostitution of children in Madagascar. As indicated by the result of its recent investigation conducted in the northern part of the country, namely in Mahajanga and Nosy Be, children under the age of 18 are exposed to high risk as regard to prostitution. Actually, ... Read More »

During the cyclonic season in Madagascar, the World Food Program (WFP) will need a total funding of 6, 1 million dollars to provide urgent aid in case of natural disasters like cyclones. In a statement, the U.N agency launched an urgent call to foreign backers while communicating that it couldn’t manage to gather enough foods and supplies in areas highly ... Read More »

As part of the celebration of the World Diabetes Day, Amadia or Malagasy Association against Diabetes organizes, during three days in a row, free screening sessions in the capital Antananarivo. As for Tuesday, November 13, 119 individuals stopped by the Amadia Clinic at Faravohitra for a blood sugar test, 4% of whom are reported to be at high risk of ... Read More »

Constantly striving to bring innovation so as to improve the quality of the technical education in Madagascar, the Minister of Technical Education, Ndremanjary Jean-André, envisions long term collaborations with some developing countries, members of the group of the 77, which the Minister met during a general meeting on November 5. Among the countries that Madagascar should partner with are Indonesia ... Read More »

Madagascar has 10 million of children below the age of 18, with more than 8 million living under the poverty line. During the period 2005-2010, there was a sharp degradation in financial poverty, especially among the children below the age of 18, with figures going from 76.6% to 82%. Generally, the majority of Malagasy children are severely deprived of their ... Read More »

A capacity building workshop on the small-scale production of ethanol in Madagascar has been held since the beginning of this week at Anosy. Participants from diverse horizons and countries take part in this workshop, whose principal goal is to strengthen the know-how and capacity of the local actors such as the sugar cane and ethanol producers. These people operate on ... Read More »

In an official statement, the company Savonnerie Tropicale calls out to the government of the transition to take action as to the enforcement of the standard compliance laws, namely the ministerial decree of the September 30, 2011, which stated the standard regulations to follow when importing and manufacturing soaps and detergents. For Savonnerie Tropicale, these regulation laws have never been ... Read More »