Marc Ravalomanana

On 2 June Madagascar's President Marc Ravalomanana announced that Japan would spend more than $430 million to modernise Toamasina port and Antananarivo's international airport...

President Marc Ravalomanana runs Madagascar like one of his own successful companies...

The resulting employment and economic growth should give a big lift to President Marc Ravalomanana and his Tiako-I-Madagaskira (TIM I love Madagascar) party elected on a reformist agenda three years ago...

Madagascar's President Marc Ravalomanana is reportedly perplexed at the British exit just months after his governnment awarded Britain's Geological Survey group a US$7 million contract amid growing optimism about the country's economic prospects...

President Marc Ravalomanana is a keen free-trader but he would prefer to keep land in local ownership...

Apart from Chissano and Mugabe only five heads of state turned up ­ Madagascar's President Marc Ravalomanana Botswana's President Festus Mogae King Mswati III of Swaziland President Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville and President Xanana Gusmão of East Timor the ACP's newest member...

In Madagascar the formerly ruling Alliance pour la Renaissance de Madagascar (Arema) cannot rival President Marc Ravalomanana's Tiako-i-Madagasikara ('I love Madagascar') which performed creditably in November's municipal elections...

One success for De Villepin's engagement with Africa Madagascar's Marc Ravalomanana was making his first visit to France as President...

Just weeks into office he flew to Antananarivo on 3 July to repair relations with new President Marc Ravalomanana of whom Paris was wary and to signal recognition...

The African Union has refused President Marc Ravalomanana recognition until legislative elections are held ­ ostensibly to confirm that the public really backs his presidency ­ but the players with the cash are already solidly behind him...