tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128244452011-11-23T18:12:28.319-05:00Madagascar LiampivoaranaHzonoreply@blogger.comBlogger2341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12824445.post-71703922828738662332011-06-29T00:02:00.000-04:002011-06-29T00:02:10.071-04:00

A U.S. report on human trafficking has placed Madagascar in the lowest category and claims the country's de facto government has done nothing to crack down on the practice of sending thousands of women to the Middle East, where the majority of them encounter forced labor and abuse. The new report reduces prospects of the U.S. resuming non-humanitarian aid to the island nation, to which it

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Ce montant a été révélé hier par le président du groupement des entrepreneurs malgaches (Fivmpama) hier au Carlton. Il faisait partie de l’enveloppe pour Madagascar dans le cadre du Fonds européen de développement (10ème FED) dont le montant total s’élève à 633 millions d’euros. A cause de la non reconnaissance du régime en place par la communauté internationale, les aides européennes sont

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Madagascar Oil Ltd. sought to resume trading in London on June 27 after resolving most disputes with the government regarding its blocks in Madagascar. The government acknowledged the company’s right to a 2-year extension of the Tsimiroro Block 3104 PSC to August 2014. Madagascar’s OMNIS acknowledged a delay due to the force majeure event that would be addressed at the end of the contract term if

Hzonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12824445.post-72769766658663371902010-11-29T17:47:00.001-05:002010-11-29T17:47:39.109-05:00

Madagascar Oil (AIM: MOIL) this morning confirmed it has raised £50.5 million as it shares were listed on AIM.The company placed a total of 53.2 million shares at 95p each, or 27.65 per cent of its equity, as part of the stock market listing, which values the company at £182.7 million. Founded in 2004, Madagascar owns five contiguous heavy oil blocks covering 29,500 square kilometres in western

Hzonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12824445.post-80987742960857161422010-11-29T17:34:00.002-05:002010-11-29T17:42:04.859-05:00

In 2004 Madagascar Oil acquired the rights to operate five blocks in Madagascar, all of which had been studied in prior years. Two of the blocks; 3102 Bemolanga and 3104 Tsimiroro had been the subject of prior development efforts by several companies dating back to the early 1900’s. The other three blocks; 3105 Manambolo, 3106 Morondava and 3107 Manandaza experienced various partially successful

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(Reuters) - Madagascar Oil said it raised 50.5 million pounds through its initial public offering, as the oil and gas explorer debuted on the junior market of the London Stock Exchange on Monday.The shares were issued at 95 pence apiece, giving the company a market cap of about 182.7 million pounds.Madagascar Oil, which expects first production from its key Tsimiroro field in 2011, said it

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ANTSIRABE, Madagascar — In Madagascar, where per capita rice consumption is the highest in Africa, Indonesian farm experts are lending a hand to help increase production of the staple crop.Jakarta sent the advisers to the Indian Ocean country, one of the world's poorest, at the request of the Japan International Cooperation Agency.Madagascan farmers favor Indonesian equipment over Japan's

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A cartoonist has prepared a story of four young holiday makers travelling around the country and finding themselves in various scenarios that illustrate different aspects of their country's constitution.Madagascar's constitution was last altered juts a few months ago, but with political leaders there still arguing about the formation of a transitional government following a coup in March, there

Hzonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12824445.post-49051239893617090352009-11-18T07:24:00.001-05:002009-11-18T07:26:19.687-05:00

Lagos — Nigeria dropped nine places to 130th position out of the 180 countries ranked on the global Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2009 by Transparency International (TI), a global anti-corruption watchdog.The survey measures domestic public sector corruption in selected countries and is conducted by TI, which is based in Berlin, Germany. In terms of level of perceived corruption, Nigeria,

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The long-held assumption that Madagascar has lost 90 percent of its forest cover due to fire and slash-and-burn agriculture may be overstated, argues new research published in Conservation Letters. Analyzing 6000-year pollen records in four sites, Malika Virah-Sawmy of Oxford University found evidence that vegetation in southeast Madagascar has for millennia been a mosaic of forests, woodlands

Hzonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12824445.post-32581748946845502672009-08-06T22:13:00.000-04:002009-08-06T22:14:53.045-04:00

Andry Rajoelina, Marc Ravalomanana, Didier Ratsiraka and Albert Zafy, leaders of four major political parties in Madagascar began roundtable negotiations Wednesday in Maputo, Mozambique at the Southern African Development Community summit on the crisis in Madagascar. The objective of the summit is to advocate for an end to hostilities that have rocked the island since the beginning of the year

Hzonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12824445.post-11118213569971109382008-11-28T16:13:00.000-05:002008-11-28T16:16:13.905-05:00

Daewoo Logistics Corp. has established "PT Daewoo Logistics Indonesia" in Indonesia for partaking in such natural resource development as Palm Plantation, Gum Plantation, Corn Farm, Coal Mining, CDM(Clean Development Mechanism) business. Through investing huge investment for Palm Oil, recognized as leading future food & energy source, PT Daewoo Logistics is trying to secure a competitive edge at

Hzonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12824445.post-14228393686671958802008-11-28T11:21:00.000-05:002008-11-28T11:34:14.018-05:00

What have Madagascar and South Korea got in common? On the face of it, nothing. The former is a country in development, the second is an economic power. One is in Africa, the other in Asia. The Malagasy have uncontaminated land. The Koreans lack cultivatable land. Madagascar has 28 inhabitants per square kilometre. South Korea has 493 inhabitants per square kilometre. Two countries that are

Hzonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12824445.post-19994867967161756602008-11-28T11:08:00.000-05:002008-11-28T11:13:20.268-05:00

Rio Tinto’s titanium dioxide-ilmenite business extends back to the 1950s and has been part of its long-standing strategy within the industrial minerals area.The company sees titanium dioxide as a good business to be in.It is a low-cost producer and roughly produces a third of the world’s titanium dioxide feedstock capacity.Rio Tinto recovers more than a third of the sector’s cash flows and net

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I would like to raise another point that may be worth considering (putting allthe environmental problems that may result from this deal aside for awhile): I might have been misinformed but from what I understand, the corn planted inthese lands are not going to be destined for local consumption alone. If thisis true, Madagascar may benefit from this deal in the short term (e.g. jobcreation,

Hzonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12824445.post-17202720043919790422008-11-27T11:35:00.000-05:002008-11-27T11:38:21.579-05:00

Thank you for the interesting reactions. It just shows how much we would stand for the benefit of this beloved country of ours. I would like to congratulate the reaction of our President; if it is got into effect. I think that he should need further assistance and voice out from Malagasy development agents. In fact, it seems that we are too quick to be lured by "FDI" Foreign Direct Investments.

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Tenant farming was popular in rural America until the Dust Bowl years of the Depression, but the practice is making a comeback on an epic scale in much of Africa. This time, however, the "tenants" are not simply family farmers down on their luck and willing to work land they don't own; they're major international corporations and governments looking to compensate for shortages of arable land in

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Vatican City, Nov 18, 2008 / 05:54 pm (CNA).- The president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Cardinal Renato Martino, has announced the recipients of the St. Matthew Foundation Awards for outstanding service in solidarity and social justice. One of the recipients this year is the Argentinean Fr. Pedro Opeka, who has worked with the poor in Madagascar since 1989.The St. Matthew

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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea' S Daewoo Logistics will seedling corn in Madagascar, has company official said one Tuesday, with has length-term aim to replaces more than half the corn it currently imports from mostly the United States.The move to develop year area off Madagascar larger than Qatar follows has smaller deal in July to seedling corn in Indonesia and reflects the region' S latest push

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WASHINGTON — With the financial crisis engulfing developing countries from Latin America to Central Europe, raising the specter of market panic and even social unrest, Western officials are weighing coordinated action to try to stabilize these economies.The International Monetary Fund, which is in negotiations with several countries to provide emergency loans, is also working to arrange a huge

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Madagascar is to open a special business unit in Johannesburg in order to encourage and strengthen trade ties, it was announced on Wednesday. Their ambassador, Dr Denis Andriamandroso told delegates at the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry's annual convention that this strategy was intended to improve operational discussions between businesses.The new Madagascar House in Houghton

Hzonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12824445.post-68277710584966405562008-09-21T15:55:00.000-04:002008-09-21T15:57:32.838-04:00

Mineral list contains contents from all localities listed at bottom of page

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Total, the French oil company, on Wednesday continued its acquisition spree of oil fields, venturing into Madagascar in a deal that could eventually become the island nation’s biggest investment.Total bought 60 per cent of the Bemolanga field from Madagascar Oil, a small Houston-based company, that acquired the licence for the field in western Madagascar in 2004. Neither company disclosed the

Hzonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12824445.post-14432784725998097672008-09-19T14:56:00.000-04:002008-09-19T14:57:15.693-04:00

Madagascar Oil Ltd. is teaming up with Total SA to develop huge oil reserves in the island nation of Madagascar.Madagascar, a Houston-based private E&P company, holds the largest onshore licensed acreage on the island, which lies off the east coast of Africa.Under the terms of the deal, French supermajor Total (NYSE: TOT) gets a 60 percent interest and the operating license to the Bemolanga oil

Hzonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12824445.post-74775019136045586662008-02-01T08:58:00.000-05:002008-02-01T09:01:13.756-05:00

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has completed the second and third reviews of Madagascar's economic performance under a three-year Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) arrangement. The completion of the reviews enables Madagascar to draw an amount equivalent to SDR 15.7 million(about US$25 million), bringing the total disbursements under the PRGF to SDR 31.4

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Event Details:Please join SID-Washington and the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) for a presentation on the "Madagascar Action Plan: 2007-2012: A Bold and Exciting Vision for Rapid Development" by: Marius Ratolojanahary, Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and FisheriesPerline Rahantanirina, Vice Minister of Health, Family Planning and Social ProtectionAndry Ralijaona, General Secretary in charge

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Antananarivo - The worldwide search for new oil and gas reserves has now reached the island-state of Madagascar off of Africa's eastern coast. So far, 17 international petroleum companies are involved in a race to discover new oil fields on the world's fourth-largest island, according to media reports. The Madagascar Oil company is already pumping oil in the Tsimiroro and Bemolanga regions in the

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Mr. Bio Tchané, Director of the African Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement in Antananarivo on August 22, 2007:"I held constructive discussions today with President Marc Ravalomanana, Minister of Finance and Budget Benjamin Radavidson, Central Bank of Madagascar Governor Frédéric Rasamoely, and other senior officials of the Government of the

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Paul Wolfowitz, a former United States deputy defence secretary, resigned from the bank job last week after being found to have breached ethical rules. Mr Wheeler, a former executive at the Treasury in New Zealand, was appointed the World Bank's managing director by Mr Wolfowitz. International reports have pinpointed Mr Wheeler as a strong possibility as his successor. Mr Wolfowitz stepped down

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ANTANANARIVO, May 16 -- Malagasy President Marc Ravalomanana said here that Africa`s development would depend on a strong private sector. "No country in the world has succeeded in its development without the private sector. Africa will not be an exception to this rule. Let`s act with full knowledge of this fact," he said at the opening of a roundtable discussion on African-Asian exchanges on

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May 16 - Mining giant Rio Tinto starts production of ilmenite in Madagascar next year, the first of four major mining projects on the large island. Madagascar has a broad range of other mineral reserves, including bauxite, nickel and chromite, as well as gems. Foreign companies are also looking for uranium, precious metals, gold, oil, gas and coal. Below are detailed the main advancing metal

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Ampasimazava is a village on Madagascar's east coast where, because of poor soil quality and poor agricultural infrastructure, few options had existed for generating revenue. The principal economic activities of villagers consisted of collecting firewood and making charcoal. The average weekly revenue for a charcoal producer was less than $5.In 2006 the Madagascar Agricultural Business Investment

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SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- Africa's economic growth rate will rise to 6 percent this year, the highest level in two decades, the African Development Bank reported Monday.Strong demand for oil and other African resources from China and other fast-developing nations is driving growth, the bank said in a statement released in China's commercial hub of Shanghai, where it is holding its annual

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The African Development Fund (ADF) will make available UA 51 million (approximately 73 million dollars or 155 billion Ariary) to the government of Madagascar to finance its national rural drinking water and sanitation supply (DWSS) programme. The ADF Board approved the amount during its weekly meeting in Tunis today. The objective of the ten-year DWSS program (2005 – 2015) is to improve living

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ANTANANARIVO (AFP) - Madagascar's constitutional court Friday ratified the results of a referendum on changing the country's basic law to increase presidential powers and make English an official language. It endorsed with minor changes the results that showed 75.38 percent of voters backing the changes that would also change the system of regional government from six autonomous provinces to 22

Hzonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12824445.post-1163861620278659222007-05-03T22:00:00.000-04:002007-05-03T22:00:14.157-04:00

Milton Friedman, the grandmaster of free-market economic theory in the postwar era and a prime force in the movement of nations toward less government and greater reliance on individual responsibility.His death was confirmed by Robert Fanger, a spokesman for the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation in Indianapolis.Conservative and liberal colleagues alike viewed Mr. Friedman, a Nobel prize

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NEW YORK - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Kennedy insider who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War and remained an eminent public thinker into the 21st century, has died, his son said. He was 89.Schlesinger suffered a heart attack while dining out with family members Wednesday night in Manhattan, Stephen Schlesinger said. He was taken to New

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As a result a Swiss bank will refund SFr2.8 million ($2.3 million) to Tantely Andrianarivo, a move that has "disappointed and shocked" the Madagascan government, which has demanded the money back. Benoît Girardin, the Swiss chargé d'affaires in Madagascar, said on Thursday that the federal prosecutor had recently decided to end the three-and-a-half-year investigation. He added though that

Hzonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12824445.post-1781552560827487802007-05-03T17:36:00.000-04:002007-05-03T21:57:12.638-04:00

China will build a hybrid rice development centre in Madagascar as part of its effort to help Africa to promote agricultural production, officials said here Saturday.The project will involve 10 million yuan ( $ 1.28 million) of government fund and be completed by 2010, according to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of Hunan Province, which is responsible for the construction and operation of

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Madagascar Oil Limited has closed on a 24-month Equity-Linked Development Capital Facility in the amount of $85 million with Credit Suisse, who acted as lead manager on the financing. Proceeds from the facility will be used for the company's ongoing exploration and appraisal operations in Madagascar. Jefferies International served as the company's financial advisor on the transaction.The company

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The Group of 33, an alliance of over 40 developing countries coordinating on a common stand in trade and economic issues, has relaxed its criteria in the classification of "special products" to be exempted from tariff cuts under the World Trade Organization (WTO) deal, the top Philippine trade negotiator said.Ambassador Manuel J. Teehankee, the Philippines’ representative to the WTO in Geneva,

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PAN AFRICAN MINING CORP. (TSX-V: PAF) (FRANKFURT: P2A) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has promoted Mr. Fafah Ramboasalama to the newly created position of Southern Africa Regional Manager, at the same time as he retains his local position as Resident Manager in Madagascar. In addition, Mr. Olivier Rakotomalala has been promoted to Associate Resident Manager in Madagascar, while

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JOHANNESBURG, 11 December (IRIN) - Provisional results show president Marc Ravalomanana has been re-elected in what observers have generally considered free and fair elections.Although some votes - but not enough to influence the results - still need to be counted, government projections gave Ravalomanana 54.80 percent of the presidential ballot on 3 December, a comfortable lead that will allow

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ANTANANARIVO (AFP) - The third-place finisher in Madagascar's presidential elections last week has filed suit challenging the victory of incumbent Marc Ravalomanana and demanding a second-round run-off. ADVERTISEMENT Roland Ratsiraka, nephew of the Indian Ocean island's former leader whom Ravalomanana ousted five years ago, said Monday official results giving the president more than 50 percent of

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Madagascar High Constitutional Court (HCC) began its process on Monday to verify the validity of the presidential election on December 3 as vote counting was completed by Sunday evening. The process began in all of 116 counties across the country immediately after the completion of the account, a senior HCC official told Xinhua on Monday. It would last for 20 days and final result would be

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OTTAWA, December 8, 2006 — The Honourable Monte Solberg, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, today announced two full-time reappointments to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB). These reappointments were made in accordance with the IRB’s merit-based reappointment process. Joulekhan Pirbay has been reappointed as a full-time member in the Montreal regional office for a term of

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ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar -- Madagascar's president has been re-elected in the Indian Ocean island country, officials said Saturday, as authorities raided a former president's home searching for the leader of a failed coup.President Marc Ravalomanana, a charismatic dairy tycoon known as the "The Milkman," won 55 percent of the Dec. 3 vote to beat 13 challengers, election officials said. He needed

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For the first time, the World Mayor top ten includes a city leader from Africa. Patrick Ramiaramanana, Mayor of Antananarivo, also a finalist in 2005, is one of Africa’s most respected mayors. He has also been honoured internationally and is admired by his peers from around the world. One commentator says: “In spite of the poverty in Madagascar, Patrick Ramiaramanana has changed the city to makes

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Madagascar on Friday halted the release of partial results from weekend elections, which are expected to have been won by incumbent President Marc Ravalomanana, citing technical and computer problems.The interior ministry said it had been forced to "temporarily suspend" the announcement of results from Sunday's polls so that engineers could fix equipment damaged by what it suspected was faulty

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The Associated PressPublished: December 9, 2006ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar: Madagascar's incumbent president has won elections in the Indian Ocean island, officials said Saturday.Marc Ravalomanana beat 13 other challengers in the Dec. 3 election, winning 55.1 percent of the vote with results from 96 percent of polling stations, elections officials said.The final 35,000 votes were expected to be

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Antananarivo - Election observers applauded Madagascar's presidential poll on Tuesday despite some reservations as millionaire leader Marc Ravalomanana stormed towards a second term on the vast Indian Ocean island. Preliminary results from nearly 14% of polling stations showed the dairy tycoon and pre-election favourite ahead with 65.6% of Sunday's vote on the world's fourth biggest island. The

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In Madagascar, preliminary returns from Sunday's presidential election show the incumbent in the lead. International observers say the balloting was orderly, although they have criticized some aspects of the process. VOA Correspondent Scott Bobb reports from our Southern Africa Bureau in Johannesburg.Election officials in Madagascar say voter turnout was relatively high in Sunday's presidential

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ANTANANARIVO, 4 December (IRIN) - Only inclement weather disrupted Madagascar's first round of presidential elections on Sunday, but it also helped to defuse one of the few election-related disturbances."I am very, very proud to see the Malagasy wisdom. It is a big challenge for us, in Madagascar, to organise democratic, free and transparent elections. Thank you, Malagasy people!" incumbent

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In Madagascar, campaigning is winding down and voters are preparing to go to the polls Sunday to elect a president. The process has been marked by boycotts, procedural disputes and a would-be coup attempt, but international observers say they hope the polling will be orderly. VOA’s Scott Bobb reports from our Southern Africa bureau in Johannesburg.Some six million registered voters Sunday are to

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ANTANANARIVO (AFP) - Voting has got under way slowly but calmly in Madagascar's presidential election in which incumbent Marc Ravalomanana was tipped as strong favourite out of 14 candidates. Around seven million voters are due to cast their ballots in the first election since the poverty-stricken Indian Ocean island nation teetered on the brink of civil war after disputed polls five years

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ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - The giant Indian Ocean island of Madagascar began voting on Sunday in a presidential election widely expected to be won by incumbent Marc Ravalomanana, a self-made dairy tycoon.Voting on the world's fourth biggest island started calmly at 7 a.m. (0400 GMT) and was due to end at 6 p.m. The winner will need more than 50 percent of votes to avoid a second round

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More than 30 000 supporters crammed into the last campaign rally by Marc Ravalomanana, the Madagascan president, yesterday dwarfing his rivals' efforts and confirming him as frontrunner in tomorrow's election.The crowd, wearing white caps and T-shirts decorated with Ravalomanana's face, filled the stands and playing area at a football stadium in the capital of this Indian Ocean island, one of the

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Presidential election campaign in Madagascar closed peacefully on Friday with signs showing that ruling President Marc Ravalomanana gaining an upper hand during the campaign, which kicked off on November 12. Improvement of living standards and a smooth transition of political institutions have become the main campaign issues as Madagascar edges closer to D-Day on Sunday. During the campaign,

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Under the eyes of the world this time, Madagascar goes to the polls on Sunday in presidential elections that will test its democratic credibility.The last presidential contest, in 2001, from which then-president Didier Ratsiraka banned observers, split the country for six months and drove it to the point of civil war. Ratsiraka refused to acknowledge the victory of Marc Ravalomanana and attempted

Hzonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12824445.post-1161437280494809332006-10-21T09:24:00.000-04:002006-10-21T09:28:01.390-04:00

Majescor Resources Inc. ("Majescor") (TSX VENTURE:MAJ.V - News) is pleased to announce that it has received the final results from the reconnaissance survey conducted in September 2006 on its Besakoa gold and base metal prospect, located in southern Madagascar.ADVERTISEMENT A total of 49 grab rock samples and 6 quality control samples were collected from surface exposures during the survey. The

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It is always good to see a junior put one over a major and this has been done in classic style by Jubilee Platinum with BHP Billiton. Doubtless the people at BHP Billiton underestimated Colin Bird, chief executive of Jubilee Platinum, as he has a quiet style, but underneath that he is shrewd negotiator. The story dates back to the beginning of November when the two companies agreed to carry

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An exploration company that found a potentially huge titanium deposit in Madagascar has said it expects the 30-year project to cost $150 million, a fraction of Rio Tinto's $585 million mine opened last year.Madagascar Resources director Jules Leclezio said a feasibility study of the Toliara sands project in the southwest, which Kumba Resources has an option to buy outright, would be completed by

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Whoever thought it could happen? The world's most populous country, with what seemed like a bottomless pool of low-skilled workers, is experiencing a labor shortage in its big manufacturing regions. David Barboza of The New York Times reports a shortage of workers at hundreds of Chinese factories, particularly in Guangdong and Fujian, the two provinces at the heart of China's export-driven

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Washington -- American magazine reporter Eduardo Cue believes promoting democracy and good governance is an exercise best done through the exchange of ideas and experiences, a practice he recently put to the test in the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), the Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa) and Madagascar.REACHING OUT TO A NEW GENERATION OF JOURNALISTSIn Madagascar, Cue ran media workshops

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Following are UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's remarks to the Academie Malgache, in Antananarivo, Madagascar, 17 March:Thank you for that warm welcome. Thank you as well for the honour you have bestowed on me today. It is a privilege to be admitted as a full member of this highly respected academy. I know I join some very distinguished men and women from many realms. I take this recognition as

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Former Sen. Arthur Brown of Utah is a footnote to history — more interesting than most, though, because a woman claiming he had fathered two of her children gunned him down in a hotel room in 1906. Brown's entry is among the 12,000 or so — from Aandahl to Zwach — in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005, the definitive reference book about federal lawmakers, now

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China's government is trying to boost public interest in its figurehead parliament and its companion advisory body by setting up Web logs for members as they meet this week. Called "bo ke" in Chinese, blogs are popular with young people despite strict censorship rules.In one posting, National People's Congress delegate Zhou Hongyu wrote that serving in the legislature is a way to "fulfill my duty

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PAN AFRICAN MINING CORP. (TSX-V: PAF) (the "Company") is delighted to announce that it has now received full permitting to commence exploration and development of prospective uranium deposits in the first two of four zones delineated in its Joint Venture Agreement with L'Office des Mines Nationales et des Industries Strategiques ("OMNIS"), a Malagasy State agency. An aggregate of 10 full Research

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Mines and Energy Minister, Olivier Donat Andriamahefamparany, said Madagascar would try to learn from the poor experiences of other African mining and petrol hotspots. "Mining has not got a good record in developing countries. That's something we want to change," he told Reuters. "We are taking lessons from other countries in Africa." The Indian Ocean Island's mining sector is currently tiny,

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ONGC Ltd is exploring the possibilities of investing in oil sand extraction projects. Oil sands or tar sands, a mined product found mostly in Canada and Venezuela, are deposits of bitumen (a heavy black viscous oil), which is treated to produce crude oil. According to available estimates, the Alberta province of Canada holds the second biggest oil reserve after Saudi Arabia through its oil sand

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ExxonMobil is to open an office in the Madagascan capital as it prepares to start drilling in two recently acquired offshore blocks, according to local sources. Last July, ExxonMobil boosted its oil and gas presence in Madagascar by taking a 70% interest in two licenses held by UK's Sterling Energy. It expects to have production of around 60,000 b/d in the next 3-4 years, much of it coming from

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Madagascar announced that it will auction 96 offshore plots of 2,000 square kilometres each for oil exploration from April until September."With the rise in the price of oil, all the world's oil companies are interested in our exploration blocs, so we are going to put them out to tender," Elise Razaka, the head of the National Mines and Strategic Industries Bureau, told Agence

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Top officials from ExxonMobil, the world's biggest oil company, opened an operation in Madagascar on Friday. Exxon is ramping up exploration on the world's fourth largest island, where it thinks its leases off the northwest coast could hold as much as 7 to 10 billion barrels of oil. The company plans to start drilling its first exploratory well later this year or in early 2007, which would be the

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MAHITSIARONGANA, 17 January (IRIN) - President Marc Ravalomanana's government has embarked on an ambitious national effort to protect Madagascar's remaining biodiversity while simultaneously reducing poverty and promoting rural development.In September 2003 he announced his commitment to triple Madagascar's protected areas in five years at the World Parks Congress in Durban, South Africa.

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He just knows that the precious metal is worth enough to justify him spending eight hours a day breaking rocks and washing clay in stagnant brown puddles in Madagascar. "I really don't know what the vahaza (white people) do with gold, but I think it has something to do with money," he says, as the sun flickers off his latest discovery. "Or maybe they make jewellery?" Though largely unexplored,

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Note: All U.S. markets are closed Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.While PPI came in more than double what was expected, Core PPI came in less than expected and tamed inflation fears. For the year, PPI rose 5.4% and Core PPI rose 1.7%. The gain in Retail Sales was attributed almost entirely to gains in autos and gas. Business Inventories were also driven by autos.Gold fell

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Several new technologies that convert ocean waves into electric power have appeared at test installations off the coasts of Ireland, Scotland, the Orkney Islands and Portugal. Technology that can convert ocean wave energy into electric power is still in its early prototype stage of development and its cost per kilowatt is high. As the technology evolves and is developed further over the next

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Donors have approved $125 million in aid to Madagascar to reform its ailing state energy company, burdened by rising fuel costs and huge debts, the government has said.Donors met Madagascan officials in Paris this week to discuss a plan to reform Jirama, the wholly state-owned energy and water company which has several times been rescued from bankruptcy by the World Bank.In a statement handed to

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Majescor Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:MAJ - News)Majescor wholly owned subsidiary, Tropic Diamonds Inc., is pleased to announce it has entered into an agreement with a Malagasy partner concerning the acquisition of a gold property consisting of two permits in Madagascar.The permit holder have granted to Tropic, for a small cash consideration, the right to perform exploration and assessment work on

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The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) declared Saturday that it will sign a loan agreement with Madagascar for KD 3.6 million (USD 12 million).A press release for KFAED said the loan would contribute in financing a hydroelectric station that aims at meeting the growing demand for this kind of energy.It added that the project also aims at reducing the cost of the power energy

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On December 21, 2005 the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) established the list of countries that qualify for debt relief from the Fund under the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI). Debt relief delivery, which could start as soon as January 3, 2005, is now conditional on getting the consents of all the contributors to the Subsidy Account of the Poverty Reduction and

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The Indian Ocean Islands of the Comoros and Madagascar are to receive Euro 1.1 million (US $1.3 million) in relief aid from the European Union (EU).EU Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid, Louis Michel, said in a statement that "millions of vulnerable people in Africa are exposed to natural disasters like droughts, floods and insect infestations as well as armed conflicts" that

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The European Union has announced a $195 million humanitarian aid package for 10 African nations, including Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.EU Development Commissioner Louis Michel says millions of Africans remain vulnerable to "silent tsunamis" such as droughts, floods and armed conflicts.Nearly $57 million has been earmarked to help displaced persons return to Sudan's violence-plagued

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The International Monetary Fund's executive board on Wednesday agreed to write off $3.3 billion owed to it by 19 of the world's poorest countries but delayed forgiving Mauritania's debt."This is an historic moment, which will allow these countries to increase spending in priority areas to reduce poverty, promote growth," IMF Managing Director Rodrigo Rato said after the two-hour board

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday agreed to cancel $3,3-billion owed by 19 of the world's poorest countries, after reports that it was back-tracking on the debt-relief plan sparked an outcry.The IMF, which had previously said it wanted one last "spot check" of the nations' economic policies, said its board has now approved them for relief under a global debt-cancellation plan

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Today, President Bush determined the following 37 countries as eligible for economic and trade benefits under African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA): Angola; Benin; Botswana; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cameroon; Cape Verde; Chad; Republic of Congo; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Djibouti; Ethiopia; Gabon; The Gambia; Ghana, Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Kenya; Lesotho; Madagascar; Malawi; Mali;

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Six of the world's poorest countries face the prospect of being left out of a much-hyped Group of Eight (G8) debt forgiveness plan when the International Monetary Fund (IMF) board meets to implement the deal.In an IMF memo to board members obtained by Reuters, the global lender's staff recommended the debts of Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mauritania, Nicaragua, Rwanda and Senegal not be written off

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Six of the eighteen countries promised a 'historic' debt deal could have their hopes dashed by the International Monetary Fund at its board meeting on Wednesday December 21, Oxfam has learned.In July the G8 announced total cancellation of all the eighteen countries' debts to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the African Development Fund.The IMF is now set to take up to six

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Madagascar may have diamond deposits to be exploited, based on research collected by mining experts on the Indian Ocean island, Canadian mineral explorer Pan-African Mining (PAF.V: Quote) has said."The signs collected during the investigations of the department of mines as well as by the French Bureau of Geology and Mining Research are promising" Pan-African Mining (PAM) General Manager Fafah

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The Economic Commission for Africa's (ECA) "Economic Report on Africa 2005" launched here yesterday shows that Ethiopia attained a GDP growth required to achieve the Millennium Development Goal to halve poverty by 2015.The new report shows also that despite record economic growth in Africa, poverty is actually getting worse. The report entitled: "Meeting the Challenges of Unemployment and

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THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Thanks for the warm welcome. It's nice to be back here at the State Department. I'm glad to be with my friend, Condi Rice, who's doing a fabulous job as our Secretary of State. (Applause.) It's also good to be here with the Board and staff of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. And I'm proud to be here to congratulate the new Chief Executive Officer, Ambassador

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"At $287.50 per ton for 1.8 million tons of rice import this year, the country is spending P27 billion to P28 billion. And NFA (National Food Authority (NFA) is losing P10 billion to P11 billion in this program. Why don’t we take the solution of investing in a rice program similar to what others did?" Henry Lim Bon Liong, hybrid rice seed producer SL Agritech Corp. (SLAC), in an interview. The

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U.S. lawmakers on Monday urged the International Monetary Fund to erase the debts of 18 poor countries, as mandated by the Group of Eight nations, while aid groups warned the deal may be under threat. Six members of the House of Representatives Financial Services and International Relations panels, including Iowa Republican James Leach and California Democrat Maxine Waters, wrote to IMF

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Mr. Brian Ames, Mission Chief for Madagascar at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), issued the following statement today at the conclusion of discussions between a visiting IMF mission and the Republic of Madagascar's Minister of Finance and Budget, Benjamin Radavidson, and Governor of Central Bank of Madagascar, Gaston Ravelojaona:"Over the past week, I held very constructive discussions with

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Debt-relief campaigners complained that some of the world's poorest countries could be left waiting indefinitely for much-needed funds under a plan by the IMF to carry out another review of economic policies. ADVERTISEMENT The Jubilee campaign group said at least six countries already promised cancellation of their debts by the International Monetary Fund will be kept waiting because of

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Madagascar Prime Minister Jacques Sylla met the delegation led by Li Ying, the vice governor of China's Gansu Province, on Thursday in ANTANANARIVO. The delegation arrived here Wednesday to attend the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of medical cooperation between China and Madagascar. Sylla highly praised the work done by the Chinese medical team from Gansu Province, saying the team has made

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Madagascar's President Marc Ravalomanana who is in Singapore for a working visit, called on Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong at the Istana on Thursday afternoon. Mr Goh's press secretary said President Ravalomanana shared with Mr Goh Madagascar's developmental plans. They also discussed how both countries could cooperate in helping Madagascar develop its human resources and advance its urban

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The enthusiasm for learning French in Tanzania is not in doubt.In Dar es Salaam the Alliance Francaise runs 4 courses of lessons annually, each of which is attended by between 350 and 400 students. In addition, lessons are given outside the Alliance, for example at companies such as TOTAL and KLM, and in schools like IST and the International School of Science. French forms part of the syllabus

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On November 7, 2005 the Executive Board of the IMF reached consensus on the implementation modalities in the Fund of the proposal for debt relief initially advanced by the G-8, and decided to call it the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI). The MDRI will provide debt relief to member countries with an annual per capita income at or below $380, and to Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs)

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The International Monetary Fund said yesterday it had approved a $4.8 billion package to cancel the debts of 20 of the world's poorest countries early next year, under a plan launched in June by the Group of Eight industrialised nations.The IMF's portion of the multilateral debt relief initiative will be covered in part by profits from a 1999 off-market gold transaction and contributions from 43

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