Toamasina City

Clove prices surge on short supplies

Demand in North India high due to onset of winter. Prices in the domestic market have soared to Rs 350 a kg, as around 70 per cent of the country's demand is met by imports. Prices in the domestic market for different origins...

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Lion Submarine Cable Enters Service

Orange Madagascar held a ceremony in the capital city Antananarivo announcing the launch of the Lion submarine cable. This follows some six months after the Chamarel cable-laying ship landed the cable at Tamatave (Toamasina) on...

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Rosewood traffickers busted in Madagascar

Authorities in Madagascar have sacked a local official, arrested several businessmen, and issued fines following the discovery of illegally harvested rosewood logs aboard a ship, reports L'Express de Madagascar. Hery...

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FOKO: Meet The Bloggers

Since January 2009 FOKO, the Rising Voices grantee from Madagascar, has been posting a series of interviews with its bloggers celebrating their first anniversary of blogging. Let us meet through these interviews some of the...

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Blog Action Day 2009: Rising Voices Projects Discuss Climate Change

Today is the Blog Action Day and this annual event aims to unite the world's bloggers where they write about a single topic in a single day to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion on the subject. Some of the members...

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Madagascar's Ravalomanana backs down from Tuesday agreement

Former Madagascan President Marc Ravalomanana backs down from an internationally backed deal reached on Tuesday by saying that he rejects the proposal on the transitional presidency. "We could not legitimate that a sponsor of a...

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Loophole looms for illegal loggers ravaging Madagascar

Antananarivo, Madagascar – An exceptional authorisation from the Malagasy transitional government for the export of raw and semi-processed precious woods risks opening a loophole for the legal export of illegally cut timber and...

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Q+A-Will Madagascar's oil reserves soon be tapped?

ANTANANARIVO, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Foreign investors are showing strong interest in Madagascar's untapped oil reserves, where one field alone holds estimated recoverable reserves of 2.5 billion barrels -- enough to put the...

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Madagascar conjoined twin girls die

Antananarivo- Conjoined twin girls born in Madagascar three months ago have died four weeks after surgeons decided it was too risky to separate them, local media reported Friday. Kambana und Sova were born in the remote village...

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Just 12km short of victory

By Murray Williams Cape paddling adventurer Riaan Manser was on Wednesday just 12km short of completing his Herculean circumnavigation of Madagascar. Manser was on Wednesday set to arrive in the eastern port town of Tamatave...

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