Madagascar launches fresh bid to resolve crisis
Region: Madagascar
BY NANGAYI GUYSON IN KAMPALA UGANDA BY NANGAY GUYSON IN KAMPALA UGANDA E. AFRICA Antananarivo- (AFP) – Madagascar's coup government on Monday launched a fresh effort to resolve an 18-month political crisis that has brought the Indian Ocean island international isolation. About 4,000 civil society members and politicians gathered outside the capital Antananarivo for a week-long conference on an interim gov... more
Views: 669Madagascar Delegation Barred from UN General Assembly Stage
Region: MadagascarThe political impasse in Madagascar has taken on new dimensions. In an attempt to legitimize the military-backed government on the international scene, Madagascar's current leader, Andry Rajoelina, was scheduled to take the floor at the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday, only to be barred from speaking. He was later rescheduled to address the Assembly at the following Friday session when the representat... more
Views: 1964Madagascar: Behind the Scenes of Foko Ushahidi SMS Alert System
Region: MadagascarA growing community of bloggers in Madagascar have been helping a global audience understand the political struggle between a former mayor and a president that recently drove their country into national disarray. A new initiative led by Malagasy bloggers captures witness accounts of social unrest via SMS text messages and Google maps using the Kenyan web interface, Ushahidi. They have been interviewed widely by world... more
Views: 2386Death Penalty for Madagascar Farmers in Land Dispute
Region: Madagascar
Posted by Lova Rakotomalala to Global Voices Online 21 farmers from the locality of Ankorondrano-Analavory (90 km west of Antananarivo, Madagascar) were sentenced by the state court of Miarinarivo to various sentences because of a collective act of rebellion that stemmed from a dispute over land ownership. To protest the expropriation of lands that they believe was theirs for decades, farmers fought with police forc... more
Views: 2472Madagascar: Village Finds Thousands of Whales Beached
Region: Madagascar
The mass stranding of at least one hundred melon-headed whales were reported in the mangrove of Antsohihy Bay (Northwest region of Madagascar) in the first week of June. Harinjaka and the non-governmental organization Fanamby were among the first to report and publish photos of this "disaster." The causes of the mass stranding are still under investigation as the local population and the ministry were trying to resc... more
Views: 1851New Species Conservation Concept Used on Madagascar
Region: Madagascar"Preserving biodiversity in the midst of tremendous pressures, such as habitat destruction and global warming, is one of humanity’s greatest environmental challenges in the 21st century.” Thus spoke Claire Kremen, of the University of California, Berkeley, concerning biologists' "conservation map", a new concept that they and a team of researchers have put to use on the African island of Madagascar, wher... more
Views: 1652Know the score - score an own goal
Region: MadagascarAs anyone who is interested in soccer knows, own goals are a fact of life. Accidental own goals at any rate. Looking at the many examples on Youtube shows you how misdirected clearances, wayward back passes, and wicked deflections end up nestling in the player’s own net. But players who deliberately score own goals are viewed with great distrust. In 2006, there was an uproar in the English Premiership when the th... more
Views: 5077Madagascar Opposition Refuses Referendum, Claims Power Again
Region: MadagascarOver the weekend, Andry Rajoelina said he had taken control of the government, though the elected president has refused to resign. Rajoelina Says He's Taken Control of Country Again On Sunday Madagascar's President Marc Ravalomanana offered to have the Malagasy people vote on their leadership in a referendum, after refusing to resign in a four-hour window ordered by the opposition on Saturday. "I rem... more
Views: 1446Euro 2012: Madagascar president Andry Rajoelina offers 24 games to the Big Island
Region: Madagascar
Last week marked the beginning of the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship, currently hosted by Poland and Ukraine. While the excitement takes place in Europe, the rest of the world closely follows, watching the televised tournament from the comforts of home, or even on the go with live streaming from the web. Watching any Euro 2012 game is a given in developed countries, major TV channels simply buy the broadca... more
Views: 856Andry Rajoelina says Madagascar ready to organize elections: end of the crisis?
Region: Madagascar
Since march 2009, Madagascar has been living an unprecedented political crisis after Andry Rajoelina, then mayor of Antananarivo, kicked Marc Ravalomanana out of the country and took the driver's seat of the country's public affairs as president of the High Transitional Authority. The international community condemmed the switch in power, arguing that Rajoelina was not democratically elected, and making the transitiona... more
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