Madagascar
Jacky Rahaingo

Madagascar
A New Anti-Fraud Chief

The new director of the fight against financial crimes wants to give momentum to his department.

Spotlight | Comoros islands
THE CARROT OR THE BIG STICK

Although the Organization of African Unity (OAU) continues to wave the threat of armed operations against separatists on Anjouan Island, the European Parliament's Development Committee has sent its chairman, former French prime minister Michel Rocard, to the embattled island to [.

Spotlight | Madagascar
HALT TO A SHIITE NETWORK

The arrest on Madagascar in January of seven members of the local Khoja (Shiite) community and Malagasy accomplices allegedly implicated in kidnapping operations with ransom demands may have brought into view a part of an international criminal network.

Madagascar
BTM AT HEART OF MATTER

The contract of a Banque Nationale pour le Développement Rural (BTM) director, French national Jean Pierre Meurillon, which had been [...]

Madagascar
TWISTED TALES SHOW UP

It didn't taken long after head of state Didier Ratsiraka's inauguration on February 9 for the first unseemly rows between [...]

Spotlight | Madagascar
ZAFY UNDER FRESH ATTACK

After forcing a government largely dominated by his own UNDD party on prime minister Norbert Ratsirahonana (ION 721) President Albert Zafy finds himself facing an ever more hostile parliament. Since he was dropped successively by Alain Ramaroson of Forces Vives [.

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FLASHBACK FOR FLAMCO

French judge Jean Pierre Rousseau has set the CID's economic and financial fraud squad in Nice (France) on the complex [...]

Madagascar
IPANEMA DE MOREIRA

A new princely being has been seen with Madagascar's important people: Michel Ipanema De Moreira, aka De Bourbon Parma. The [...]

Madagascar
BLUNDERS OF ZAFY'S VISIT

The recent official visit to Paris by president Albert Zafy (May 16 to 19, see ION N° 624) was marked [...]

Spotlight | Madagascar
TIMETABLE FOR AN ECONOMIC RELAUNCH

Madagascar's discussions with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will doubtless be far more delicate than that government likes to admit and it seems extremely unlikely that structural adjustment credits can be released before the second half [.

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DIPLOMATIC MESS

The Malagasy Comité de Coordination Economique et Financière (CCEF) did not finally give its press conference due to be held [...]

Spotlight | Comoros islands
SHADY STOCK DEALINGS IN US

The grandiose projects of a United States-based oil company in Colorado, Transamerican Petroleum Corporation (TPC), that were to be realized in the Comoros Islands, are going to be used in a game of speculation on the United States second market.

FRENCH VS. DUTCH OVER EUROPOL

The confrontation between the French and Dutch governments over Europol headquarters seems to be heading to a climax. In a [...]

The French Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Sécurité Intérieure [...]

ANTOINE ROSSION

Antoine Rossion, a forty-four year old police commissioner, has been appointed head of the "Brigade Financière" of the Paris Prefecture [...]