Vol 5 (AAC) No 11 | MADAGASCARCHINA Back on the Mainland 3rd September 2012 Mainland Mining, a subsidiary of China Geo Engineering Corporation, faces opposition as it tries to mend its ways and restart activities on its ilmenite (titanium-iron oxide) explo...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 9 | MADAGASCARCHINABRIEFING Miner’s missing millions 30th June 2012 Prime Minister Jean-Omer Beriziky says that Chinese investors are angry about the treatment they have received from the government. Wuhan Iron and Steel Corporation executives voci...
Vol 52 No 19 | MADAGASCAR Rajoelina agrees a deal 23rd September 2011 Andry ‘TGV’ Rajoelina was prepared to compromise once he thought Ravalomanana no longer represented an electoral threat No sooner had interim leader Andry Rajoelina agreed to terms that included the return of the exiled Marc Ravalomanana, than senior figures in the governing Haute Autorité de la Tra...
Vol 52 No 19 | MADAGASCAR International concerns 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...
Vol 52 No 1 | MADAGASCAR A permanent putsch 7th January 2011 Foreigners disapprove but Andry TGV Rajoelina wants to be president and the voters may agree He has not announced that he is standing but transitional leader Andry Rajoelina is on the campaign trail for the presidential and legislative polls that are due by midyear. He kee...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 7 | MADAGASCARCHINA Making room for friends 13th May 2011 London-listed Madagascar Oil’s battles with the Malagasy government are heating up. The two sides are now heading for international arbitration. The dispute arose when the Haute Au...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 4 | MADAGASCARCHINA Election funds? Try Hong Kong 28th February 2011 Antananarivo is looking for resource deals with Asian financiers to raise cash for an election campaign for interim leader Andry Rajoelina The transitional regime led by Andry Rajoelina is threatening to cancel oil exploration licences held by Western investors and hand them to the Hong Kong-based China International ...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 4 | MADAGASCARASIA Andry's Asian alliances under fire 28th February 2011 A rowdy colonel in detention is lambasting Andry Rajoelina’s Haute autorité de la transition (HAT) for its reliance on opaque deals with Asian companies. Colonel Charles Andrianaso...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 1 | MADAGASCAR Chinese trains for TGV 18th November 2010 The latest deals mark the government’s biggest turn towards the East since the political crisis and subsequent reduction in international support President Andry Rajoelina – nicknamed ‘TGV’ after France’s high-speed train – wants to leave a train service as his legacy when he steps down from power in 2011. On 6 November, he ...
Vol 51 No 24 | MADAGASCAR The next revolt 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 ...