In order to improve the business environment in Madagascar, a partnership agreement was signed yesterday between GEM (Group of Companies of Madagascar) and EFOI Madagascar, a platform that gathers Malagasy women entrepreneurs who have expressed interest in collaborating with GEM after becoming aware of the importance of pooling their efforts and finding ways to cope with globalization.   According to ... Lire la suite »

In spite of the enduring socio-economic crisis in the country and despite recent news items concerning the murders of French tourists, the tourism sector in Madagascar experienced a sharp growth since the beginning of the year. Operators in this sector recently talked about optimizing all the activities and services, namely security, for the next tourist season. Besides, last Monday, the ... Lire la suite »

As part of the implementation of the reforms adopted by the Ministry in charge of development and town and country planning, the unique land office of the land services of Antananarivo was inaugurated on May 16, with 17 892 832 MGA expenses on infrastructure and 29 million MGA on diverse equipments, in addition to computers which were offered by various ... Lire la suite »

In close collaboration with the school district of Brickaville, The Department of Environment of the Ambatovy Project organized last month training sessions on environmental education geared toward 21 teachers of primary schools and 28 teachers of secondary schools in the surrounding Communes of the Massif of Ankerana. 49 teachers could strengthen their pedagogic knowledge concerning the protection of nature. For ... Lire la suite »

At a first look, one might say that the royal crown presented in the Palace of Anafiavaratra last Wednesday is the one that disappeared about five months ago at the Palace’s Museum. But as the head of the Cultural Heritage Department in the Ministry of Culture and Heritage stated clearly, it is only a replica of the original item which ... Lire la suite »

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 »

Le Sempama campé sur sa position malgré les 25 milliards d’ariary accordés, les enseignants chercheurs ne garantissent pas la rentrée universitaire 2012, les paramédicaux entament une grève avec service minimum, les médecins menacent de grève pour promesses non tenues par les autorités de transition, les transporteurs réclament des subventions... les foyers de tension risquent de mettre à l’épreuve le gouvernement et la HAT. Lire la suite »

Some fifty different factions came together into the newly founded VHFTV political cluster, and jointly require a new 18 months long transition at the most. The cluster is being managed by the Movement of Clerical Leaders (HMF) firmly opposed to the High Authority of Transition for the latest couple of years. Lire la suite »

Une cinquantaine d'entités différentes se sont regroupées au sein du VHFTV pour revendiquer une nouvelle transition de 18 mois au maximum. La plateforme est coordonnée par le Mouvement des leaders religieux (HMF) qui s'oppose aux pratiques de la Haute Autorité de la transition depuis deux ans. Lire la suite »

The union of Madagascan Reporters called upon the capital city’s professionals to emphasize the union’s claims in the street around the Journalists’ Order’s Monument located on Independence Avenue in Analakely. The union wants all of the radio and television channels censored by the ruling power to be allowed to freely broadcast, and the current minister of communications to step down. Lire la suite »