Madagascar

Madagascar owns a video game tournament on the big screen for two days. From this Saturday 21 November until Sunday evening (17:00), this weekend's video games will be held in the capital Antananarivo, on giant screens in one of the only cinemas in the country. A first. It is a concept that attracts many confirmed players but also amateurs. On the Big Island, access to a personal game console is still rare for most households, associations and communities of players and e-sports are in full development. Pictures of…

In Madagascar, we are seeing an increase in the prices of basic necessities. During two weeks, in the markets of the capital, but also in the provinces, the kilo of different rice varieties, a commodity that forms the basis of the Malagasy diet, has increased from 200 to 400 ariary. Oil and sugar prices are also rising. An increase that worries Malagasy households, which have already been hit hard by the economic and social crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. At the Analakely market in the center of the Malagasy…

Madagascar has one of the lowest environmental indices on the planet. One in five deaths on the island is caused by environmental degradation and its effects on health. Various researchers have sounded the alarm during a conference day on this topic. From our correspondent in Antananarivo,In 2016, a study was initiated on the…

The Finance Bill, prepared by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance and adopted by the government for almost three weeks, has still not come into the hands of parliamentarians, contrary to what the law requires. In the meantime, and this is what civil society firmly condemns, the population is entitled to some entertainment. Annoyance and anger increase.…

For the first time in the Malagasy mining sector, Madagascar representatives of major mining and craft operations, who regularly opposed each other, sat around the same table. The aim: to discuss the way out of the crisis caused by the coronavirus, but also to oppose the reform of the mining law, whose new taxation could plague the already gloomy sector.…

In Madagascar, lychee exporters have been living the most important eight days of the season since November 13, the opening date for the fruit harvest. The only real unknown: will Western buyers put litchi on the holiday table? Trucks, vans, wagons: a real broom of lychee is currently underway in Tamatave, eastern Madagascar. In less than ten days, 15,000 to 20,000 tons of the little pink fruit will pass through the only two roads in the city that converge towards the port. There, the cranes are busy filling the ship's…

The tombs, scattered here and there in Antananarivo, are hundreds. The oldest date from the Vazimba period towards the end of the 16th century. Only 20% of them are still maintained by the families of the descendants of the deceased. A conference was dedicated to this Malagasy architectural heritage "Tombs and Men in Antananarivo" at the Museum of Photography.…

In Madagascar, twenty-five years after the fire that destroyed part of Rova, the enclosure of the Queen's Palace in the capital Antananarivo, President of the Republic Andry Rajoelina on Friday, November 6, was inaugurated with great pomp, in front of a Parterre of prestigious guests, the previously restored Queen's Palace. The day before, Madagascar had recovered the crown from the last Malagasy queen…

Cases of briefcases, concussion between deputies and power in place: in Madagascar in 2018, scandals are raging on the benches of the National Assembly. In 2019, as a deprivation of the population against this political elite, the absence rate breaks records in the legislative election ... as reported from Antananarivo, Sarah…

On December 11, Madagascar elects its new senators. This time, not the entire population is called to the ballot box. Only about 12,000 major voters will vote. These are the country's 1,700 mayors and all their municipal councilors. Yesterday, in front of the candidates in front of future NGOs who were observers of the election and the financing of the vote, the Independent National Electoral…