Briefs

First official road race and first victory. Riding a MT-09 in the Roadster 3 category, Willio Émilien Rabevoavy caused a surprise by winning the third round of the Madagascar Big Displacement Road Motorcycle Championship on Sunday in Ambohibary Sambaina. He achieved the best time of the competition on his very first run, clocking in at […]

An all-Analamanga final. The National Gendarmerie Volleyball team missed out on two titles at the Madagascar U21 Cup. In the boys’ category, Akany Sambatra Itaosy (ASI) won 3-0 (25/20, 25/18, 25/17) against GNVB on Friday evening at the Ampisikina gymnasium in Mahajanga. In the girls’ category, another club from Itaosy, Bi’as, defeated the Betongolo team

A 17-year-old teenager has been arrested for his alleged involvement in a murder that occurred at a karaoke bar in Bongatsara on August 23. He confessed to stabbing a 21-year-old customer twice in the neck. According to his statement, he acted after seeing the victim attempting to pull an object from behind his back. The

Some thinkers, like Blaise Pascal, described custom as a “second nature,” a habit that eventually becomes law. In Antananarivo, traffic jams have imposed themselves on our daily landscape, monopolizing a large part of our days. While this phenomenon is more than familiar, we still struggle to get used to it. We experience them almost seven

1,643 Nepalese children escaped a mud tsunami that left nearly 800 dead and 3,000 missing (with 13 dead and 546 missing on the Chinese side) at the Sino-Nepalese border. A Nepalese school administrator had the foresight to lead the students to the heights of the mountains flanking the riverbed. The images are striking: a gentle

The Ministry of National Education has announced an exceptional measure to regularize the administrative status of certain contract agents. This initiative targets individuals who should have been recruited as civil servants but were instead hired under contract. It specifically concerns graduates from Higher Teacher Training Schools (ENS) holding a Certificate of Pedagogical Aptitude (Capen) and

Following the passage of Cyclone Gezani, the association Ambohimalaza-France has strengthened its humanitarian and social actions this year for children from the most vulnerable families in the schools it supports in Toamasina. Supervised by Fara Rajaonarisoa and driven by the efforts of Thierry Ramaherison, these initiatives aim to alleviate the financial burdens related to schooling

“When a country does not produce, it remains poor,” says Lanto Eric Randrianarimalala, Director of Higher Education and Multimedia. For him, training young people is a major challenge in an economy where many focus on services while production remains insufficient. The goal is to train a generation that does not just seek employment, but is

Mining activities of QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) have been suspended in Mandena, Fort-Dauphin, due to several blockades on the access road to the site. The announcement was made by the mining company in a statement released following a third incident that occurred on August 27. “These repeated blockades over the last three…” Captured & Published

The suspension of mining activities by QIT Madagascar Minerals (QMM) in Mandena, Fort-Dauphin, decided following several blockades of the site’s access road, goes beyond the mere scope of mining operations. While the measure is presented as a precautionary decision intended to ensure the safety of individuals, it highlights the complex balance between investments and a