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The SEMPAMA keeps holding on in spite of the offer of MGA 25 billions, university professors do not pledge the 2012 academic year 2012, paramedics begin a strike and merely insure minimum service, doctors do threaten to sanction the transitional authorities’ failure to hold on to its word with a strike, transportation companies are longing for subsidies ... tension hotspots are likely to put the HAT and its regime to the test Lire la suite »

After series of repeated calls addressed to the HAT’s leader, the Minister of Education changed his stand, actually operated a U-turn and threatened strikers with a wage suspension and a pending termination of contract. Manoro Regis emphatically ordered teaching to resume in public schools on Monday, May 7th, 2012. The striking teachers responded by displaying their solidarity and standing tall to the ruling power. Lire la suite »

The HAT’s leader dismissed the increasingly inconvenient Minister of Water and Forest Management as he busted the rosewood case related scandal. Is the Education Minister the next one standing on the gallow? Rajoelina suspects Manoro Regis of supporting the teachers' strike which brings the educational system to a standstill. During these three years of transitional domination following the year 2009’s putsch, the Malagasy youth has simply been sent out from school. Lire la suite »

Hatred, revenge, political crime, a robbery which went wrong, with premeditated murder, assumptions are swarming following the gruesome discovery of General Claude Ramananarivo’s family, former state police commander and a member of a stillborn military board in 2009. Lire la suite »

While LaReunion island flared up in protest against its high cost of living, Madagascar is still in the doldrums. Rising fuel prices cannot be avoided, and happen to be on their way to cause widespread inflation. Three years after the promise to divide basic product prices by two, the HAT leaders have a juicy livelihood unlike the 20 million Malagasy consumers. Consumer groups raise their voices while the population demonstrates its ability to swallow blows. Lire la suite »

Giovanna, the latest cyclone having paid a visit to Madagascar left at least some 15 casualties and nearly 20,000 victims behind. Houses and cages basically not designed to withstand such winds have significantly been damaged, especially in the eastern side. In Antananarivo, water has destroyed and killed. The country is now leaching its wounds. Lire la suite »

Will a revolution of judges ever come true? Does the HAT´s anti-democratic transition happen to be the right time for in depth changes? These are some of the main questions induced by the magistrates´ call for a true independence and for a fourth power´s status. Lire la suite »

REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS immediately reacted following the armed forces´ intimidation directed against Madagascar´s press groups. Warnings, summons to join the state police´s facilities, obligations to apologize publicly, recall to the order… prohibition barely covered up by the law of the strong is gaining ground. The ruling regime cannot destroy the press so is longing to control it fully Lire la suite »

Ousting an elected president is a good reason to breach the law, criticizing a putsch maker is however unforgivable, so do things go here now. Those who violated the ethics are now the ones pretending to defend them. Lire la suite »

During the transition, namely since 2009, Madagascans have been losing scores of their traditional values and nearly all of their republican reference marks. The law of the strong is claiming its toll from the society, for the country swings between dictatorship and anarchy. The crisis between police forces and the court is escalating through a couple of cases with human casualties: the murdering uprising of policemen in Tuléar city and the pact which sentenced people to death without any trial in Ikongo. Lire la suite »