Madagascar

Madagascar is launching a nationwide campaign called "big catch-up vaccination" targeting nearly 900,000 children on April 26. In 2024, it is estimated that over 1.2 million Malagasy children under 5 have not received any vaccines since birth. Details.

In Madagascar, the need for cocoa is so high that farmers in the north-west have seen their pay increase fourfold. Cocoa is now more profitable than vanilla this year. However, Malagasy exporters are concerned: the beans cannot leave the country as the recent storm has blocked access to the port.

Madagascar has tried to bury its dark past, but cinema resurrects it in Zanatany. Director Hachimiya Ahamada revisits the massacre of Comorians in December 1976 in Majunga. The short film, shot entirely on the island, has been screening at international festivals since the beginning of the year. It was shown to a Malagasy audience for the first time at the Alliance Française in Majunga.

After the scholars on the Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique took to the streets in the midst of the week, it's now as much as them on the University of Ankatsode to assert 4 months' unpaid scholarships. A downside that arises yearly. The digitization of knowledge…

It is that this Sunday, March 20, that the week for the French language ends. Among the alternatives supplied by francophiles, the French programs supplied by Alliances Françaises all over the world, generally for 140 years! Today, on earth, greater than half…

In Madagascar, rising meals costs are changing into more and more burdensome for households. The giant island is extremely depending on imports to satisfy the wants of the inhabitants and has already been hit by inflation linked to the coronavirus pandemic. In…

Senior officers working at Cnaps, the National Social Insurance Fund, in different phrases the AP Fund, together with its director normal, have been positioned in preventive custody in a single day from Tuesday to Wednesday. They are suspected, amongst…

A set of musical chairs with new faces appearing, previously outcasts returning to the dance and departures. On Wednesday afternoon, March 16, Malagasy President Andry Rajoelina carried out a cabinet reshuffle, the fifth in three years. In the end, no major…

In Fort Dauphin, within the far southeast, suspected incidents recorded since mid-February in rivers and lagoons across the mining firm QMM (a subsidiary of Rio Tinto) are worrying. Yesterday, throughout a joint press convention, the Minister of the…

In Madagascar, a number of leaders of the National Social Insurance Fund (CNAPS) are suspected of embezzlement. In a press launch printed on its web site, the Independent Anti-Corruption Office (Bianco) signifies that it has found a case of grand corruption…