More than $500m worth of textile products were exported through the port last year. (..) Toamasina is the biggest port in Madagascar and handles 90% of the country’s international trade. It is set to benefit from a Y45.2bn ($414m) loan on preferential terms from the Japanese government. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed the loan agreement in late March. The money is to be repaid over 40 years at an interest rate of just 0.01% with a ten year grace period. The money will be used to finance dredging work, the extension of the breakwater and the construction of a new dedicated container berth, plus associated consultancy and advisory services. Apart from more than doubling the port’s annual handling capacity, the work will allow larger vessels to use the port. All work on the project is due to be completed by April 2026.
Tahina Navalona dans NewsMada
Dans BioMed Central
Understanding rats’ invasion of Madagascar. Many ecosystems today are threatened by invasive species. These newcomers prey on or compete with native species, they carry new parasites and diseases, and even cause extinctions of long-established residents.
Dans Relief Web
Madagascar: Cyclone Enawo Situation Report No.5 (14 April 2017)... To date, the Flash Appeal, budgeted at $20.1 million, is 45 per cent funded. It will be revised at the end of April in order to cover the humanitarian needs for the next six months, based on the in-depth sectoral assessments completed and on-going. Fifteen municipalities (out of 31) are severely affected in the two most affected districts of Antalaha and Maroantsetra. (..) By late March the number of people affected by the impacts of Enawo stabilised at 434,000, with 58 districts out of 119 reporting damages.
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