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...Madagascar FROM CHAOS TO COUP President Marc Ravalomanana ceded power to the country's military on March 17 after soldiers stormed a presidential palace in the capital city of Antananarivo. The move followed two months of antigovernment protests--many of which were prompted by Antananarivo's ex-mayor, former DJ Andry Rajoelina, who declared himself the country's new leader. Ravalomanana accused his political rival of seizing power by illegal means (according to Madagascar's constitution, the 34-year-old Rajoelina isn't old enough to be President), while the African Union accused Rajoelina of orchestrating a coup that threatens...
Ecotourists have turned their gaze on Madagascar and its bounty of lemurs - tourism was up by 21% between 2004 and 2005 - but outside the capital, Antananarivo, there are few decent hotels. Local subsistence farmers don't care much, and thus President Marc Ravalomanana, who is determined to pull the world's fourth largest island out of its economic quagmire, craves outside entrepreneurs to boost the hospitality business. Which is how Marie-José de Speville and Karl-Heinz Horner moved from the Seychelles to Joffreville, a small mountain village 30 km from the northerly port of Diego Suarez. Joffreville...
Ecotourists have turned their gaze on Madagascar and its bounty of lemurs?tourism was up by 21% between 2004 and 2005?but outside the capital, Antananarivo, there are few decent hotels. Local subsistence farmers don't care much, and thus President Marc Ravalomanana, who is determined to pull the world's fourth largest island out of its economic quagmire, craves outside entrepreneurs to boost the hospitality business...
...brink," says Frank Hawkins, technical director of the Madagascar Center for Biodiversity Conservation, a unit of the U.S. environmental NGO Conservation International. He and his wife, Joanna Durbin, who heads the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust on the island, are heartened by the 2002 election of reform-minded President Marc Ravalomanana, who has pledged to expand his country's network of protected conservation areas from 1.7 million hectares to 6 million hectares over the next five years. The RBG is mapping the island's flora to help the government identify the best sites for 11 new reserves. It has also included...
...slammed into the center of the city. A transitional government, accepted by 17 political parties, was inaugurated last November but Hutu rebels refused to accept it. Recent talks between government and nlf rebels have stalled because of mistrust and disagreements. MADAGASCAR Presidential Battle Forces supporting newly elected President Marc Ravalomanana fought off an attack by troops loyal to the defeated Didier Ratsiraka on an airstrip in the northeastern town of Sambava. Ratsiraka has refused to accept his electoral defeat and encouraged supporters to blockade the capital, Antananarivo. At least 40 people have died in fighting since the election in December...