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The UNDP`s report concerning Madagascar`s poverty in 2011 has made a fact clear, that has repeatedly been belittled propaganda. The country is being suffering under the illegal transition because of the suspension of foreign financial support. The HAT pretended to have managed the country well with what was available, but the population was the one to bear the impact of a stranded economy burdened by sanctions. Lire la suite »

The remembrance of March 29th, 1947, the day, on which the insurgency against the colonial power and the struggle for independence started, was completed without trouble. The ruling power conducted the celebration with the usual political trend. 64 years after the events, the surviving heroes are still expecting for more consideration from the state while historians are failing to agree on the number of casualties. Lire la suite »

The national radio channel is celebrating its 80th birthday. The gifts? A second TV channel, a bonus on the pay check… public press is at sky ninth. A dropping rate of commercials is, on the other hand, having the opposite effect on the private press. It actually has to bear the side effects of the information technology companies´ decision to halt their commercials as a protest against the HAT´s international gateway project. Lire la suite »

Families were upset when the HAT announced that Malagasy female migrant workers would be repatriated. Parents are praying for having their children back in good health, after all of the reports and snapshots of sick and psychically affected young women. They rather put their trust on the workers´ union than on the government. Lire la suite »

It was basically deemed to be a simple moral case. The scene of a church shooting a exorcism ceremony sensibly similar to pornography, sored the audience when the footage was broadcasted. The HAT justice and state consequently addressed the issue. The FPVM church puts a victim´s face and points as those ones who shot and broadcasted the footage as scapegoats. Lire la suite »

The ruling power´s new legal blunder is about to hit beer consumers. The SKOL beer is simply being forced out of from public places. the HAT´s communication ministry ordered the "New Brewery of Madagascar" to remove every commercial for the Swedish trademark, and subsequently make place for the French THB trademark Lire la suite »

Did the HAT put its money on the right horse when trying to pressure the opponent Raymond Ranjeva? Nowaday´s justice condemned Riana Ranjeva, the international magistrate´s daughter, to a one month jail sentence with probation. The “probation” is coming too late. The condemnation of this pregnant woman for a minor incident has ruined what is left from the HAT´s reputation furthermore Lire la suite »

Following the failure of negotiations led by the army´s general chief of staff, the officers entrenched inside the BANI base camp finally gave in to the HAT´s intervention forces. Lt Colonel Charles Andrianasoavina urged his comrades to to so. There were sporadic shoot outs but not a single victim. Lire la suite »

A couple of days after officers´ declared suspension of transitional institutions and constitution of a Public Salvation Military Committee, negotiations are still underway between the HAT army and the rebels. The general chief of staff would like to push for the peaceful settlement of an army issue whereas the HAT defense minister has ordered to put the BANI base camp under siege Lire la suite »

  The inhabitants of Ambalamanasy are arguing that minister Nadine Ramaroson, in charge of population management, was tricked during her visit held on November 6th. The truth remained voluntarily hidden. The locals of Ambalamanasy Toamasina II are attesting that Toamasina II´s mayor was the mastermind of the latest forced seizure of their lots, an operation supposedly authorized by a faked ... Lire la suite »