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The french soul performer, Ben l’Oncle Soul, is in Madagascar for two weeks vacations. Last weekend, he was spotted hanging out in the Art Tana Café at Ampasamadinika. With the presence of the talented Malagasy guitarist, Joel Rabesolo, who usually performs in this place, Ben l’Oncle Soul could not refrain from getting on stage and performed some improvised tunes.   ... Lire la suite »

An international team composed of about twenty scientists led by Thomas Haevermans, a botanist at a natural history museum, will conduct a comprehensive survey in the natural reserve « Tsingy of Namoroka » from August 29 until September 17. This natural site has never benefited from such an expedition and survey until the present, in spite of the fact that it is ... Lire la suite »

It is usually hard to distinguish between dirty money and decently-earned money, and money has no smell. However, the National Financial Intelligence Service (Samifin) smells a rat in business and financial environment of the country. In fact, the General Manager of Samifin, Dr Razaranaina Jean-Claude, allegedly reported that a huge sum of money, about 643 billion MGA, has been suspected ... Lire la suite »

During a recent conference held in Saint-Gilles, Reunion, members of the Vanilla Islands, including Reunion, Seychelles, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Mayotte, all agreed upon the prospection of a new potential market to sell tourist destinations: China. Indeed, according to a report released by the International Organization of Tourism, China will represent a highly potential market in 2020 because in that year, ... Lire la suite »

Following the trend of the high tech era, financial institutions in Madagascar start providing online services to their clients in order to facilitate the latter’s access to their account and to allow them to perform quick money transfer. Indeed, local banks’ clients can have access to their account directly from their computers or their mobile phones at any time and ... Lire la suite »

As part of its educational mission consisting providing the most vulnerable population with appropriate education, international NGO Aide et Action (Aid and Action) uses the operation “Reflect” or Regenerated Frerian Literacy through Empowering Community Techniques as a tool for promoting literacy in adult people. “Reflect” was developed by Aide et Action in Madagascar since 2006 through its project named PGSE ... Lire la suite »

Fela Razafinjato participated in the contest organized by the Junior Chamber International (JCI) named “Ten Outstanding Young Persons”, in which she ends up as among the finalists. In regard to that, an online voting has been organized on the following web site, www.jci.cc/toypvote/home.php?n=10, so that the general public could participate and support her. In fact, the contest consists of presenting ... Lire la suite »

With its local Rehabilitation and Agricultural Urgency Coordination Unit (CAUR), the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) contribute and facilitate changes in the management of agricultural production in order to diversify the population’s survival strategies and to render sustainable the appropriate risk and disaster management mechanism, especially in vulnerable and remote localities. The FAO’s primary target groups are vulnerable ... Lire la suite »

Almost 300 billion MGA, such is the global revenue of the government in the mining sector. 136 mining companies of the Big Island have settled their administrative charges which amount to 5000 dollars. These companies constitute the target group on which the “Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative” (EITI) conducted a study. As a result of the study, 88% of the tax ... Lire la suite »

As part of the effort of increasing the production of rice in Madagascar, agronomists strongly recommend farmers to practice the Intensive Rice growing System known as SRI. As described in the report of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, the system of Intensive Rice growing allows farmers to double or to treble their production in the majority of the ... Lire la suite »