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Madagascar

Type: Country

Name: Madagascar

population: 17,955,590

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358 articles

First Reported 20 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 4 Documents

Andry Rajoelina

AU slaps sanctions on leaders

The African Union has slapped sanctions on Madagascar's rulers for failing to implement accords to end a long political crisis, as fresh violence erupted in the island's capital. The Times reports that the move against Madagascar strongman Andry Rajoelina ... [Published 1 hour ago by Legalbrief]

Entities: Sanctions, Ramtane Lamamra, Andry Rajoelina

First Reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 Documents

European Union

Bangladesh to hold regional climate conference in May

A two-day Regional Climate Conference will be held in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka on May 19-20 bringing more than 15 Asian, African and Small Island States to raise their common issues with regard to the climate change.The regional climate conference in ... [Published 14 hours ago by China.org.cn]

Entities: Bangladesh, Dhaka (Bangladesh), Global Warming/Climate Change, Bhutan, European Union

First Reported Mar 21 2010 - Updated Mar 21 2010 - 1 Documents

adidas AG

Madagascar crisis puts thousands out of work

One year after the overthrow of Madagascar's president, the Indian Ocean island is facing stiffer political penalties and economic sanctions that are plunging thousands into poverty. A deserted garment factory in the capital Antananarivo is one of the ... [Published Mar 21 2010 by Mail & Guardian Online]

Entities: Madagascar, African Growth and Opportunities Act, Andry Rajoelina, adidas AG

First Reported Mar 21 2010 - Updated Mar 21 2010 - 1 Documents

Twitter Inc

Twitter in trouble over Sarkozy affairs rumour

The claim was sensational and the impact global: Carla Bruni was having an extramarital affair with a songwriter, while President Sarkozy, her husband, was sleeping with one of his ministers.The message on Twitter by Aude Baron, a French online journalist, ... [Published Mar 21 2010 by Times Online]

Entities: Twitter Inc, Carla Bruni, Libel, Benjamin Biolay, Chantal Jouanno

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 21 2010 - 4 Documents

Madagascar leader hardens stance after AU sanctions

[ID:nLDE62G21P] In a statement released on Friday evening, Madagascar's transitional authority said the "humiliating" sanctions showed the 53-member organisation had no willingness to recognise a legitimate popular movement trying to bring about chan ... [Published Mar 21 2010 by ReliefWeb - Latest Updates]

Entities: Madagascar, Sanctions

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 20 2010 - 7 Documents

The Eastern Company

Madagascar connected to EASSy

Antananarivo - Madagascar has been connected to EASSy, a high bandwidth fibre optic cable that connects countries on Africa's eastern coast to the rest of the world, Telecom Malagasy (Telma) said Saturday.The Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System is supposed ... [Published Mar 20 2010 by News24.com]

Entities: Madagascar, Antananarivo, fibre optic cable, The Eastern Company, Telecommunication

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 20 2010 - 1 Documents

Willie Walsh

'Gifted' priest ordained as archbishop in Rome

A FORMER Clare priest was yesterday ordained to the episcopacy at a ceremony in St Peter's Basilica in Rome, writes John Cooney.Archbishop Eugene Nugent, from Gurtaderra, Scarriff, Co Clare, was appointed last month by Pope Benedict as Apostolic Nuncio ... [Published Mar 20 2010 by Irish Independent]

Entities: Rome, Comoros, Apostolic, Willie Walsh

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 20 2010 - 1 Documents

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER RESIGNS, EU CRITICIZES “ILLEGAL REGIME”

The Malagasy minister of foreign affairs, Ny Hasina Andriamanjato, has resigned, reiterating his support for the president of the Transition Authority (TA), Andry Rajoelina. Andriamanjato said that a government of national unity should be nominated before ... [Published Mar 20 2010 by Misna]

Entities: Andry Rajoelina, European Union, Resignation

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 20 2010 - 1 Documents

Website under fire for role in Sarkozy gossip

Entities: Twitter Inc, Carla Bruni, Libel, Benjamin Biolay, Chantal Jouanno

First Reported Mar 20 2010 - Updated Mar 20 2010 - 1 Documents

Crisis Group Shows Madagascar Way Out Of Stalemate

By Jerome Mwanda IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis NAIROBI (IDN) - Formerly an independent kingdom that was colonised by the French in 1896 but regained independence in 1960, the island nation of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean off the south-eastern coast ... [Published Mar 20 2010 by IDN Global News]

Entities: Madagascar, Crisis, African Union, Indian Ocean

First Reported Mar 18 2010 - Updated Mar 18 2010 - 4 Documents

Madagascar: UN Assists Relief Efforts

United Nations aid workers in eastern Madagascar are helping local officials mount relief efforts in the wake of Tropical Storm Hubert, which has killed dozens of people in the Indian Ocean country and left an estimated 11,000 others homeless. ... [Published Mar 18 2010 by Scoop]

Entities: Madagascar, United Nations, Tropical Storm

First Reported Mar 17 2010 - Updated Mar 18 2010 - 14 Documents

MADAGASCAR: Will AU sanctions be a "wake-up call"?

JOHANNESBURG, 18 March 2010 (IRIN) - True to its word, the African Union (AU) has announced the imposition of sanctions against Madagascar's "de facto authorities" - exactly a year after Andry Rajoelina, backed by the military, ousted former President ... [Published Mar 18 2010 by ReliefWeb - Latest Updates]

Entities: Madagascar, Sanctions, Marc Ravalomanana, Andry Rajoelina

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...of his cohorts came exactly a year to the day since they seized power in a military-backed coup that toppled then President Marc Ravalomanana. "The sanctions are refusal of visas, freeze of financial assets in foreign banks and to refuse accreditation" Security Commissioner Ramtane Lamamra said after a meeting of the bloc's peace and security council in Addis Ababa...

AU slaps sanctions on leaders [Legalbrief - 1 hour ago]

...Victor Fodeke, submitted that Nigerian CDM projects accounted for 40 percent of the total in Africa as a whole. He said, "Total credits generated in Nigeria have wiped out that of South Africa as a whole even though South Africa has more projects than we do InIn fact Nigeria accounts for less that 50 percent of the total CERs generated in Africa." Nigeria's proposed CDM projects are the Platform New Cross and Adad (both gas utilisation schemes), the World BankWorld Bank Kainji Hydro-electric Upgrade...

Concerns Over Africa's Stuttering Carbon Market [analysis] [AllAfrica.com - 1 hour ago]

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Madagascar rulers seek restrictions on opposition [AFP via Yahoo! - 16 hours ago]
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Madagascar crisis puts thousands out of work [Mail & Guardian Online - Mar 21 2010]
Church tribute to cleric's China years [South China Morning Post - Mar 21 2010]
Twitter in trouble over Sarkozy affairs rumour [Times Online - Mar 21 2010]
Madagascar leader hardens stance after AU sanct... [ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Mar 21 2010]
POLITICS-SUDAN: African Leaders Call for Peacef... [Inter Press Service - Mar 20 2010]
Madagascar connected to EASSy [News24.com - Mar 20 2010]
Madagascar connected to EASSy fiber optic cable [France24 - Asia Pacific - Mar 20 2010]
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Blogs

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Morning Brief: Clinton to talk Mideast and miss... [FP Passport - Mar 18 2010] Clinton to talk Mideast and missiles in Moscow Top story: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Moscow for two days of talks, a little more than a ...
Madagascar Rosewood From National Park On A Boa... [Treehugger - Mar 15 2010] French container ship in Vohemar, Madagascar, March 12. Photo Derek Schuurman There was a coup in Madagascar last March, and ever since there has been widespread ...
Madagascar Rosewood From National Park On A Boa... [Treehugger - Mar 15 2010]
Year after Coup, Madagascar's Leaders Face Sanc... [Global Voices Online - Mar 14 2010] On the anniversary of the coup d'etat of March 17, 2009 in Madagascar, individual sanctions are about to be imposed upon the current leaders of Madagascar for ...
Global Voices Authors Speak Out Against Censorship [Global Voices Online - Mar 12 2010] The Internet is the tool most feared today by the elites, the media and by the power. It empowers those who otherwise would remain forgotten, oppressed. It is a ...

Audio/Video

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Nature: 21 January 2010 [Mefeedia Video Tag : geneti - Jan 20 2010]
Nature: 21 January 2010 [Mefeedia Video Tag : physi - Jan 20 2010]
Nature: 21 January 2010 [Mefeedia Video Tag : biolo - Jan 20 2010]
Nature: 21 January 2010 [Nature Podcast - Jan 20 2010]
TERRA 528: Angels of the Forest: Silky Sifakas ... [Mefeedia Video Tag : physi - Dec 04 2009]