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16/07/2025

🇲🇬 CULTURE

🇲🇬 EVENT

👉 Vision Madagascar : For memory, unity and hope

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In Madagascar, Vision Madagascar brings together music and collective memory to honor the victims of a humanitarian plane crash, celebrate its 25th anniversary, and mark Mandela Day. On July 18, 2025, the esplanade of the Coliseum Antsonjombe in Antananar...

16/07/2025

🇲🇬 CULTURE

🇲🇬 CONCERT

👉 “Revy Revy Mody Masoandro”, To rekindle the soul of malagasy music

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11/07/2025

🇲🇬 SPORT

🇲🇬 MUAY THAI

👉 King of the jungle 2025: Fanomezantsoa Frederico represents Madagascar

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11/07/2025

🇲🇬 CULTURE

🇲🇬 LITERATURE

👉 Prix Mille Espoirs Africain: Mahaimitsinjo Ny Voahary among the 12 finalists

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Between stage and page, a young artist explores two forms of expression while representing Madagascar in a pan-African literary competition. Malagasy slam poet and writer Mahaimitsinjo Ny Voahary is among the 12 finalists of the 2025 edition of the Prix M...

11/07/2025

🇲🇬 SOCIAL

🇲🇬 LEGIS

👉 Justice and Controversy: The first known convict sentenced to chemical castration

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A historic turning point in the fight against sexual violence against children was marked yesterday, July 10, 2025, at the Anosy Court. In Courtroom 5, judges delivered an unprecedented verdict, sentencing the perpetrator to life with hard labor under the...

08/07/2025

🇲🇬 POLITIC

🇲🇬 NEWS

👉 NACS 2025–2030: A welcomed step toward greater institutional transparency

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The Integrity Safeguard Committee (CSI), alongside key anti-corruption agencies such as BIANCO, SAMIFIN, ARAI, and the Anti-Corruption Hub (PAC), presented for the first time before the National Assembly, on July 3, 2025, its 2024 activity report along wi...

05/07/2025

🇲🇬 CULTURE

🇲🇬 PREVIEW

👉 “Tsara Joro” by Daniel Martin Losa: Giving voice to the silences of Malagasy history

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By reconstructing key episodes of Madagascar’s anti-colonial struggle, the film Tsara Joro, centered on the country’s independence, offers both an educational and committed reading of national history. It explores the forms of memory transmission. On Thur...

05/07/2025

🇲🇬 POLITIC

🇲🇬 ANALYSIS

👉 Îles Éparses: Madagascar dances to a waltz imposed by France

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France proclaims sovereignty. Madagascar claims a diplomatic victory. Two narratives emerge from a single meeting. What truly transpired on June 30, 2025, in Paris, during the Franco-Malagasy Joint Commission on the Îles Éparses or Scattered Islands? Bene...

04/07/2025

🇲🇬 SPORT

🇲🇬 TRAINING

👉 Mahamasina: Sports journalists boost their skills

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To mark International Sports Journalists Day, celebrated on July 2, 2025, a dedicated training session was held this Wednesday at the Mahamasina Sports Palace. Organized by the Union of Sports Journalists of Madagascar (UJSM), this capacity-building sessi...

02/07/2025

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🇲🇬 NEWS

👉 Development or Dependency: Official departure of USAID, what Now?

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A historic page is turning in Madagascar. The U.S. Ambassador to Madagascar, Claire Pierangelo, announced this Tuesday the official end of USAID (United States Agency for International Development) activities on the Big Island at Villa Philadelphie in Amb...

02/07/2025

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🇲🇬 NEWS

👉 Strengthening Regional Cooperation: APNAC Zimbabwe visits Madagascar's Anti-Corruption System

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Yesterday, July 1st, 2025, a high-level delegation from the African Parliamentarians Network Against Corruption (APNAC), Zimbabwe chapter, was received by representatives of Madagascar's Anti-Corruption System (SAC) at the headquarters of the Committee fo...

02/07/2025

🇲🇬 ECONOMY

🇲🇬 NEWS

👉 VAT on Bank Loans: The State delays, implementation remains pending

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Panic spread among borrowers and banking institutions following the announcement that bank interest would be subject to VAT, but the Malagasy government has clarified the situation: the 20% tax on loan interest is not yet applicable.