- Vol 52 No 19
- 23rd September 2011
The new settlement, unratified, uncertain and flawed though it is, will find strong support from international organisations anxious to deal with a worsening humanitarian situation and to reverse the years of economic contraction. Real gross domestic prod...
- Vol 52 No 1
- 7th January 2011
Foreigners disapprove but Andry TGV Rajoelina wants to be president and
the voters may agree
- Vol 51 No 24
- 3rd December 2010
The curious rebellion on 17 November by a score of soldiers was defused when the rebels, who had been surrounded, surrendered peacefully. No military units had joined them; eleven officers have been detained and a leading judge, Raymond Ranjeva, stands ac...
- Vol 51 No 11
- 28th May 2010
Putsch leader Andry Rajoelina says he won’t stand in the forthcoming elections – but for some reason no one believes him
- Vol 50 No 20
- 8th October 2009
The choice of academic Eugène Mangalaza as Prime Minister after a marathon meeting in Antananarivo on 6 October has broken the deadlock over the make-up of the new interim government, which is to run Madagascar until elections in 15 months' time. B...
- Vol 50 No 14
- 10th July 2009
While Madagascar's ousted President Marc Ravalomanana stews in South Africa, the youthful transition leader Andry Rajoelina has been in Belgium, vainly trying to persuade the European Union to restore its aid. Talks on 6 July with an EU team headed by Swe...
- Vol 50 No 7
- 3rd April 2009
The opening of a national conference in Antananarivo on 2 April, led by Andry Rajoelina, head of the Haute Autorité de la Transition, is likely to worsen political divisions. Its goal is to draw up plans to return the country to constitutional rule and ho...
- Vol 50 No 6
- 20th March 2009
After the crisis that led to 135 deaths and the resignation of President Ravalomanana, the new young chief will have to meet many aspirations
- Vol 50 No 3
- 6th February 2009
Antananarivo's young Mayor challenges the business-friendly President
- Vol 50 No 3
- 6th February 2009
Marc Ravalomanana, 'the Yoghurt King', built his Tiko business group from a hawker's cart into the country's biggest home-grown company (AC Vol 46 No 20). In 1999, he captured Antananarivo Town Hall, the launch-pad for his 2001-02 bid for the presidency. ...