Island games : China requested
Madagascar indicated that China would be requested as a priority to carry out urgent work to repair athletics tracks, swimming pools, team sports fields and gymnasiums called to host the competitions of the 11th Indian Ocean Islands Games which are to take place from August 23 to September 3 on its soil.
China will finance a hydroelectric plant
China will lend Madagascar $240 million to finance the construction of the Ranomafana hydroelectric power station, on the Ikopa River, about a hundred kilometers from the Malagasy capital. This project, announced in 2016, but suspended due to lack of funding, will consist of two production units of 32 megawatts each. The plant will supply the interconnected network of Tananarive and could meet nearly a quarter of its needs. The contract stipulates that the work must be entrusted to Chinese companies, and that at least half of the purchases of materials and services must be made in China.
Public meetings prohibited
Civil liberties decline in Madagascar as the presidential election approaches, scheduled for November 2023. At the beginning of April, the Ministry of the Interior announced the ban on public meetings and demonstrations of a political nature in public places. Or, This decision does not apply to members of the executive, So to the outgoing president Andry Rajoelina, re -election. She immediately sparked a reaction from foreign embassies, expressing their concern. On the other hand, the director and owner of one of the only critical Malagasy newspapers towards the regime, The Gazette of the Big Island, was imprisoned at the end of March. His incarceration was immediately sentenced by the Federation of Associations of Journalists in Madagascar.
Vanilla market : The loose state of the ballast
After wanting to impose floors for green vanilla and vanilla prepared during the 2022-2023 campaign, Malagasy President Rajoelina announced in early April operators in the sector a relaxation of these measures. They have indeed resulted in a drop in transactions and the constitution of exports that. Export operations approval procedures will also be reduced.
Computer science : A "42" school in Tana
The Axian group announced the opening at the end of 2023 of a computer school in Tananarive, In partnership with the “42” network created by Xavier Niel in France ten years ago. The school will be located near the headquarters of the Malagasy group (Famille Hiridjee), become pan-African. It will constitute the 49th campus of the network and the 4th in Africa as a whole., three already existing in Morocco. Schools 42, free, promote autonomy and training in project mode. After a pre-selection phase, 150 Malagasy students will begin the common core of the course in early 2024. “We are already in discussions to open more 42 campuses in our other geographies, particularly in Senegal”, has already announced Hassanein Hiridjee, CEO of Axian.
