Transparency International - Initiative Madagascar (TI-IM) and the Voahary Gasy Alliance (AVG) were recently approached by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) to collect information and data on rosewood trafficking in Madagascar. The resulting investigation reinforces our own analysis of the situation and that of other specialized organizations, such as the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). (..) Faced with this state of affairs, TI-IM and the AVG recommend that the government stick to the commitments they have made, in particular by:
- Carrying out the expected investigations and enquiries on the whole "precious wood" affair;
- Sanctioning without reservation all traffickers and their accomplices, including public and political figures involved in trafficking precious wood;
- Meeting the obligations of protecting environmental activists involved in denouncing traffickers and their perpetrators, instead of repressing and terrorizing them;
- Demonstrating transparency in drawing up inventories of existing rosewood stocks, by including civil society, and enforcing the measures provided for in the May 2016 Biodiversity Management Plan.
(..) Facilitating the illegal trade in precious wood is an international environmental crime for which the perpetrators must answer in court.
Dans African Review
Madagascar has the highest percentage of ‘olderpreneurs’ (entrepreneurs over the age of 50) compared to the rest of the world, according to analysis from Allstar Business Solutions, the UK-based leading provider of fuel cards. (..) Madagascar was found to have the highest proportion of olderpreneurs in the world, with 39 per cent of the 55+ population accounted for in the TEA index.
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