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MADAGASCAR: Framework to forestall emergencies planned
IRIN - Tuesday, April 03, 2007
MBALENGO Monday, February 06, 2006 (IRIN) - Southeastern Madagascar is lush and green, its rolling hills dotted with rice paddies and fruit trees - the last place you would imagine as threatened by a food ... more
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MADAGASCAR: Down-and-out in Antananarivo
IRIN - Tuesday, April 03, 2007
NTANANARIVO Wednesday, February 22, 2006 (IRIN) - As the fire truck rolled down the Ambohidahy Tunnel hosing the pedestrian walkway, a small knot of homeless people - children included - gathered up their belongings and ... more
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MADAGASCAR: Chikungunya virus confirmed
IRIN - Tuesday, April 03, 2007
NTANANARIVO Monday, March 06, 2006 (IRIN) - Madagascar has acknowledged the presence of the debilitating mosquito-borne chikungunya virus, which has affected some 180,000 people on the neighbouring Indian Ocean island of ... more
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MADAGASCAR: Mosquito-borne fevers rampant in biggest port
IRIN - Tuesday, April 03, 2007
OHANNESBURG Wednesday, March 15, 2006 (IRIN) - Madagascar is used to fighting mosquitoes, but not the kind responsible for the fever outbreak that is crippling the eastern port town of Toamasina, where experts warn that conventional vector control will not be ... more
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MADAGASCAR: Maintaining the roads to prosperity
IRIN - Tuesday, April 03, 2007
ATOMANDRY Wednesday, March 29, 2006 (IRIN) - Three years ago, the road to the seaside town of Vatomandry was like most in Madagascar: punishing to impassable. Now, resorts, shops, stalls and vendors crowd the edges of the smooth asphalt strip that passes through the town, around 200 km east of... more
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MADAGASCAR: Alarm bells ring as new crisis hits south
IRIN - Tuesday, April 03, 2007
OHANNESBURG Wednesday, May 17, 2006 (IRIN) - Aid agencies warn that drought may lead to crop failure in southern Madagascar, aggravating already precarious food security and low nutrition ... more
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MADAGASCAR: An uneasy runup to December elections
IRIN - Tuesday, April 03, 2007
OHANNESBURG Friday, June 09, 2006 (IRIN) - Tension is rising in Madagascar ahead of elections scheduled for December, after talks between the government and opposition fizzled ... more
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MADAGASCAR: Watchdog calls for transparency as oil boom takes off
IRIN - Tuesday, April 03, 2007
OHANNESBURG Thursday, August 03, 2006 (IRIN) - Madagascar is becoming the next staging post of Africa's energy boom as oil conglomerates descend on the poverty stricken island to contend for a share of the recent discovery, but a global watchdog cautions that the windfall could challenge the island's fledgling ... more
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MADAGASCAR: Hoping for the best as presidential election approaches
IRIN - Tuesday, April 03, 2007
OHANNESBURG Friday, October 13, 2006 (IRIN) - An opposition leader has been denied entry into Madagascar to register for the December presidential election but the United Nations (UN) is confident that the country's ability to hold a credible poll remains ... more
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MADAGASCAR: Hoping for fair, transparent, uncontroversial elections
IRIN - Tuesday, April 03, 2007
OHANNESBURG Wednesday, November 15, 2006 (IRIN) - As campaigning for December polls gets underway throughout the island, Madagascar has the opportunity to show it can hold presidential elections that work. The polls are key to Madagascar's recovery after the last election in 2001, which descended into violence that split the... more
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MADAGASCAR: Attempted "coup" fizzles in desire for peaceful poll
IRIN - Tuesday, April 03, 2007
OHANNESBURG Monday, November 20, 2006 (IRIN) - Tensions flared briefly in Madagascar as an army general's call for President Marc Ravalomanana to stand down ahead of next month's presidential elections was "misinterpreted" as a coup ... more
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MADAGASCAR: Voter apathy as election day approaches
IRIN - Tuesday, April 03, 2007
NTANANARIVO Friday, December 01, 2006 (IRIN) - As Madagascar makes its way to polling stations on Sunday after weeks of campaigning dominated by incumbent president Marc Ravalomanana, other presidential hopefuls are already questioning the possible ... more
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MADAGASCAR: Opinion divided over Ravalomanana
IRIN - Tuesday, April 03, 2007
NTANANARIVO Friday, December 01, 2006 (IRIN) - Four and a half years after being elected president of Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana is set to seek a second term in the election on Sunday. Although lauded for rehabilitating the infrastructure, opinion is divided over whether he has helped alleviate ... more
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MADAGASCAR: So far, so good in presidential election
IRIN - Tuesday, April 03, 2007
NTANANARIVO Monday, December 04, 2006 (IRIN) - Only inclement weather disrupted Madagascarâ??s first round of presidential elections on Sunday, but it also helped to defuse one of the few election-related ... more
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MADAGASCAR: Ravalomanana likely to win presidential election
IRIN - Tuesday, April 03, 2007
OHANNESBURG Monday, December 11, 2006 (IRIN) - Provisional results show president Marc Ravalomanana has been re-elected in what observers have generally considered free and fair ... more
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MADAGASCAR: Children go hungry after floods, drought and Cyclone Bondo
IRIN - Tuesday, April 03, 2007
OHANNESBURG Wednesday, December 27, 2006 (IRIN) - Madagascar has called for international aid to help stem a nutritional emergency that has left thousands of children malnourished in the vulnerable ... more
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Sixth Cyclone Threatens Island
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, April 03, 2007
ith some 450,000 people in Madagascar already in urgently need of shelter, food, drinking water, medication and school supplies due to five cyclones this season, and a sixth one on the way, United Nations agencies have set up three operational bases to avert further deaths and disease in the world's... more
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Ambatovy Receives Key Malagasy Certification
Topix - Monday, April 02, 2007
p> The LGIM, which was promulgated by the Madagascar Government in 2002 and developed with the support and assistance of the World Bank, establishes the legal framework for developing and operating large-scale ... via Canada NewsWire ... more
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Cyclone kills 21 in Madagascar: official report
Topix - Monday, April 02, 2007
p> The cyclone and following rainstorm that swept northeast Madagascar last week have killed 21 people, according to statistics published by the National Committee for Risks and Catastrophe Council. via People's Daily Online ... more
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Tacita Dean: In Search Of Inspiration
Topix - Monday, April 02, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"I want to make a film called The Last Plot about the last five nuns in this convent thinking about who's going to get that last space." I found myself in Kita-kyushu in Japan, on a sort of strange residency-stroke-professorship, where they invite an artist to... more
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