Zuma's Madagascan Hot Potato


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Madagascar:   Political Events Upstage Humanitarian Crisis
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
24 April 2009

International donors need to face up to the seriousness of Madagascar's deepening humanitarian crisis and, perhaps more importantly, they need to pay up, said aid agencies on the Indian Ocean Island.

Madagascar:   Ravalomanana to Return Home
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
16 April 2009

Deposed Madagascan President Marc Ravalomanana will return to the island state under the protection of the 13-member regional body, the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

South Africa:   Zuma's Madagascan Hot Potato
Business Day (Johannesburg)
30 April 2009

The first diplomatic challenge facing incoming president Jacob Zuma is whether to host ousted Madagascar President Marc Ravalomanana, who has formally asked SA for presidential privileges and ...

Madagascar:   Media Under Attack One Month After New President Installed
Reporters sans Frontières (Paris)
23 April 2009

Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns the return of censorship to Madagascar in the form of orders to the state-owned media not to cover opposition demonstrations.

Madagascar:   On the Slippery Slope to Hunger
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
28 April 2009

Florine Zafy, who runs the health centre in Sampona, a tiny town in the Anosy region of southern Madagascar, has become as desperate as the parched landscape: three consecutive years of drought and ...

Madagascar:   Statement by the Presidency of the Republic of Madagascar
Presidency of the Republic of Madagascar (Antananarivo)
22 April 2009

His Excellency, Marc Ravalomanana, President of the Republic of Madagascar, and President Kgalema Motlanthe, President of South Africa and current Chairperson of SADC, met yesterday in Pretoria. Their ...

Madagascar:   Statement by Presidency of the Republic of Madagascar
Presidency of the Republic of Madagascar (Antananarivo)
20 April 2009

His Excellency, Marc Ravalomanana, the President of the Republic of Madagascar, met with the international media in Johannesburg this morning to discuss the nomination of his new Prime Minister and ...


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