Mikama - Oct 27, 2015

Fanjanarivo dans La Gazette de la Grande Ile

Entretien des routes nationales: A peine 6 000 km/an à cause d’un maigre financement. Doté de maigres fonds, soit une moyenne de 100 milliards Ar par an, le Fonds d’entretien routier (FER) souffre depuis longtemps pour différentes raisons. (..) De 50 000 km au début des années 60, le réseau routier de Madagascar est estimé à 31 640 km à fin décembre 2013 dont seulement 6 933 km de routes revêtues. (..) De 50 000 km au début des années 60, le réseau routier de Madagascar est estimé à 31 640 km à fin décembre 2013 dont seulement 6 933 km de routes revêtues.

Riana R. dans NewsMada

«Le blanchiment d’argent, la corruption, et l’insuffisance des infrastructures sont les problèmes récurrents ayant un impact sévère sur les investissements privés à Madagascar», a souligné Abdelkrim Bendjebbour... Selon le constat de la Bad, le risque est encore considéré comme très élevé à Madagascar. C’est ce qui représente un frein majeur aux investissements directs étrangers (IDE) et à l’investissement privé local.

Dans AGI.it
Tahiry Rajonarivelo, project manager and commissioner general of the Madagascar pavilion, stressed the fact that only 19 per cent of the population had access to electricity, despite the country's huge renewable energy potential.  (..) There is no lack of sun, so this could be an excellent source of energy, given the country's geographic position, and we estimate that 2,000 kw could be produced per square metre." The other potential renewables are wind power, biomass, biogas and geothermal energy. The country has enormous possibilities in terms of wind power, since "even at an altitude of 50 metres, the wind blows between 6 and 8 metres a second in the south and more than 9 metres in the north. It needs to be exploited intelligently. Biogas is a possible alternative to charcoal.

Anthony Marshall US Embassy in Madagascar from 1969-71 in Hufffington Post
As President Philibert Tsiranana said, "We have more cattle than people. We have 14 million cattle and six million people... My proposal was one-third, one-third, and one-third. The Malagasy provide land and whatever, the French have the abattoir, and the Americans have the ranching. (..) MARSHALL: I don't know whether you'd call it suspicion or jealousy, or just French. I think I'd call it just French... There were two factors that were working. One was Malagasy politics. The other was the French not liking the Americans succeeding in their area... I found out later - and I'd just as soon not reveal how - very precisely, who were the two Malagasy who had brought this forgery - we'll call it that, it's as good a name as any - to the attention of Tsiranana. I found out exactly who they were. They were rather high-up people in the President's office. And what I would call, although I couldn't go to court to prove it, absolute confirmation that the French ambassador was involved both by what he didn't do and by what he did do.