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	Antsiranana pictures, Antsiranana images \| infohub.com
		This Antsiranana photo gallery is part of the TrekEarth Photo Gallery, a website devoted to photos from around the world.
		Antsiranana pictures, formerly Diégo-Suarez, town in northern Madagascar.
		Antsiranana, capital of Antsiranana Province, on an inlet of the Indian Ocean.
	www.infohub.com /pictures/images_antsiranana_2025.html (134 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Antananarivo province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Antananarivo is a province of Madagascar with an area of 58,283 km².
		Antananarivo, population 802,000 (1997), is the capital of Madagascar, in Antananarivo province.
		Antanànarìvo (pronounced IPA [æntəˌnænəˈɹiːvoʊ] or [ɑːntəˌnɑːnəˈɹiːvoʊ]), population 802,000 (1997), is the capital of Madagascar, in Antananarivo province.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Antananarivo-province (287 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Antsiranana province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The autonomus provinces, having the same names and territories as the already existing provinces, were created in 2000.
		Although they are subdivisions of the provinces, they are representatives (and representing the people) of the republic, not the province.
		In the coastal regions of the provinces of Mahajanga and Antsiranana (Diego Suarez), Muslims constitute a significant minority.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Antsiranana-province (126 words)

	2nd Malagasy province secedes
		Of Madagascar's six provinces, four - Toamasina, Antsiranana, Toliara in the southeast and Mahajanga in the northwest - are controlled by Ratsiraka loyalists.
		The two densely populated central provinces of Fianarantsoa and Antananarivo, home of the capital and economic hub of the Indian Ocean island state, are controlled by Ravalomanana's backers.
		On Tuesday, the governor of Antsiranana, one of Madagascar's richest provinces which derives its income primarily from vanilla and cloves, fishing and tourism, proclaimed his territory a "sovereign state, independent within the confederation of Madagascar".
	www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,6935,2-1659_1175713,00.html (733 words)

	Madagascar - Amnesty International
		On 2 March, Olivier Ratsimba and Lalason Rajaobelina, supporters of Marc Ravalomanana in the island of Nosy-Be, part of the northern province of Antsiranana, were separately arrested in their homes and beaten severely by armed security officers and supporters of Didier Ratsiraka.
		They were detained in the “2nd RFI” military camp next to the office of the governor, where they were beaten with gun butts and stones, threatened with death, humiliated and robbed of their personal belongings.
		In April at least 19 people were arrested by Ratsiraka security forces and supporters in separate instances in Antsiranana province because of their perceived support for Marc Ravalomanana during the elections.
	web.amnesty.org /report2003/Mdg-summary-eng (1327 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Human shield used in Madagascar
		Around 70 people who had been chained to the railings of the governor's office in Antsiranana on Monday were later taken to a military camp by their captors.
		But AFP reports that Antsiranana, which is heavily defended by backers of Mr Ratsiraka, is expected to put up a stiff fight.
		Antsiranana in the north, and Tamatave, in the east, are both key ports, and the last two provincial capitals still controlled by Mr Ratsiraka.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/2065722.stm (667 words)

	Diocese of Antsiranana
		We are part of the Province of the Indian Ocean in the Anglican Communion, which also includes the islands and dioceses of Seychelles and Mauritius.
		Antsiranana Diocese saw its first mission church started on August 10, 1889, in Namakia, and the Cathedral of St Laurent in Antananarivo, Ambohimanoro, was inaugurated that same year.
		The Diocese of Antsiranana was formed on January 12, 1969, with the Rt Rev Gabriel Josoa as the first Bishop.
	www.antsirananadiocese.org /welcome.shtml (593 words)

	Arrested Madagascar students charged after riots - Boston.com
		The students, whose university is located in northern Antsiranana province, broke windows at the university, in secondary schools and at the premises of the ailing state energy firm JIRAMA during the protests on Thursday.
		Antsiranana is about 1,000 km (625 miles) from the capital.
		By the time of the arrests, the students had been demonstrating for three days after not receiving their scholarship payments and because of the failure of the electricity supply in the university and the city.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2006/03/25/arrested_madagascar_students_charged_after_riots (296 words)

	GZ Journal - Technical support Stones 04
		The currently most important deposits are about 70 km to the south of Antsiranana, in the area of Ambondromifehy, inside and directly next to the Ankarana Nature Reserve in Antsiranana Province (Fig.
		Main highway No. 6 from Antsiranana to Ambondromifehy is an asphalted all-weather roadway and the different mining areas can be reached on foot from the highway, but unaccompanied visitors will find the sapphire dealers somewhat unfriendly.
		17: Characteristic growth structure in a sapphire from Antsiranana with dominant positive rhombohedron r and basic pinacoid c; the growth structure is associated with an intensive colour zoning.
	www.gz-journal.de /Technical_support_Stones_04.cfm (2484 words)

	Cleverpedia, the ultimate encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Antsiranana is a province in the north of Madagascar with the capital of the same name Antsiranana.
		Mahajanga is a province of Madagascar with the capital Mahajanga.
		Toamasina is a province in the east Madagascar with the capital of the same name Toamasina.
	cleverpedia.com /sitemap1704 (1634 words)

	Madagascar
		Coutiti, the security coordinator for the Governor of Antsiranana Province, Jean Robert Gara, and Antsiranana Deputy Soaline were believed to have been responsible for numerous other politically motivated killings in Antsiranana Province.
		On June 24, pro-Ratsiraka militia in Antsiranana detained a group of 73 persons, many of highland origin, and chained them to the gate surrounding the governor's mansion apparently as a warning sign to approaching Ravalomanana forces that these hostages would be used as human shields in the event of an attack.
		In Toamasina Province, his arrest provoked widespread anger, the circulation of petitions, and calls for a general strike.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18212.htm (7928 words)

	Peace and Justice Ministries
		The Church In the Province of the Indian Ocean is made up of six (6) dioceses: Mauritius, the Seychelles, Antananarivo, Toamasina, Antsiranana, and Mahajanga.
		Madagascar is a very large island, administratively composed of 6 provinces which are quite different, one from another, in respect to population, economic potential, and general level of development.
		The island has four Anglican dioceses: Antsiranana (which corresponds to the province of the same name), Mahajanga (also corresponding to a province), Toamasina (incorporating the province of the same name and the province of Fianarantsao), and Antananarivo (incorporating the province of the same name and the province of Toliara).
	www.episcopalchurch.org /1866_9982_ENG_HTM.htm (1296 words)

	afrol News - Malagasy power struggle remains open
		Antsiranana Province is officially under Ratsiraka's control, but pro-Ravalomanana troops reportedly are advancing.
		State radio reported the province's south-western town Ambanja and the island Nosy Be were taken on Saturday.
		Earlier, the province's eastern town Sambava was taken by Ravalomanana's troops.
	www.afrol.com /News2002/mad036_oau_recogn.htm (697 words)

	Madagascar: Selective justice. - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Once his troops arrived in the provinces, Marc Ravalomanana stated that a commission of inquiry would be established to investigate crimes or offences committed by the former government during the crisis and that his government would fight against the culture of impunity which had been pervasive before he came to power.
		In the province of Fianarantsoa there were violent clashes between two army factions when Marc Ravalomanana’s supporters tried to replace a pro-Ratsiraka governor with their "President".
		Some 200 people arrested in the provinces and accused of crimes or offences committed in the provinces have been transferred to Antananarivo to be tried.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGAFR350042002?open&of=ENG-MDG (9813 words)

	IOL: Madagascar's ex-ruler skips country
		Antsiranana, Madagascar - Former Madagascar ruler Didier Ratsiraka fled the country on Friday as President Marc Ravalomanana's troops advanced towards his last stronghold, diplomatic and airport sources said.
		Ravalomanana's army was advancing slowly through the province of Toamasina and army officials said Ratsiraka's militias appeared to have fled.
		Antsiranana, on the northern tip of the giant Indian Ocean island, was one of Ratsiraka's two remaining strongholds.
	www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=qw1025861414195M322 (540 words)

	Madagascar's Ravalomanana advances in north
		Ravalomanana's forces are fighting for control of the northernmost province of Antsiranana, where they have already taken several strategic towns.
		Ravalomanana's chief of military staff, General Sylvain Razafimandimby, said his troops were advancing up the west of the province, taking the towns of Ambilobe and Anivorano, and had already made their first incursions into Antsiranana itself.
		There were reports that pro-Ratsiraka militias, led by Antsiranana's governor Jean Robert Gara and hardline Lieutenant- Colonel Coutiti, were terrorising the local population, mounting armed robberies, raping women and looting small businesses in the provincial capital.
	www.madagasikara.de /NEWSJuni-3/020628reuters.html (576 words)

	Madagascar: Cyclone - OCHA-02: 21-May-02
		Flooding and landslides caused by heavy rains were reported in Ambilobe, Diego Suarez, and Vohemar in Antsiranana province.
		On 13 May 2002, based on information received from the provinces of Antsiranana and Toamasina, it was agreed that the inter-agency mission should be fielded to the affected areas.
		Subsequently on 15 May, a locally-organised inter-agency mission was dispatched to the north, to evaluate the damages in the areas of Ambilobe, Analalava, Nosy Be, Sambava and Vohemar, and on 16 May, to the East Coast, in the areas of Fenerive Est, Maroantsetra and Toamasina.
	iys.cidi.org /disaster/02a/ixl146.html (563 words)

	afrol News - Madagascar returns to normalcy without Africa
		In the northern autonomous province of Antsiranana, preparations are made to inaugurate Jaosoa Pascal as new governor on Saturday.
		Antsiranana - the centre of Madagascar's main export crop, vanilla - was the scene of the heaviest military clashes in the fight between pro-Ratsiraka and pro-Ravalomanana troops.
		Only in the outskirts of the province, there were reports of scattered groups of pro-Ratsiraka militants resisting capitulation.
	www.afrol.com /News2002/mad042_au_reconciliation.htm (745 words)

	Pan African Mining Corporation -- Properties & Projects: Madagascar -- Ampanefena
		The Ampanefena project area, located approximately seven hundred kilometers north-northeast from Antananarivo, occurs within the northern coastal province of Antsiranana, to the Southeast of the Company's Andavakoera project area.
		Access to the project area is north from Antananarivo, via daily Air Madagascar flights, to the provincial capital of Antsiranana, then south and east, along Route Nationale-6, and then Route Nationale-5a for a distance of approximately one hundred and fifty kilometers, to the project area.
		The project licences cover approximately thirty kilometers of the contact zone between the Archaean basement crystalline gneiss and micaschist to the south-southeast, and the Phanerozoic coastal sediments to the north–northwest.
	www.panafrican.com /props_Ampanefena.asp (284 words)

	Market Wire News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The transaction is subject to (i) regulatory approval, (ii) required approvals under Malagasy law for the transfer of the PRs, and (iii) execution of a formal agreement at the latest on July 27, 2006.
		The Analalava property, located in Antsiranana province, northeastern Madagascar, is host to a series of historical Ni-Cu showings associated with a Cretaceous mafic intrusive body, the Analalava gabbro-troctolite massif.
		The Ankaramy property, located in Antsiranana province, northeastern Madagascar, lies along the contact of the Precambrian basement with the overlying Paleozoic sedimentary cover and shows potential for epithermal gold and SEDEX-type Pb-Zn mineralization.
	www.marketwire.com /mw/release_printer_friendly?release_id=146058&category= (1033 words)

	African Conservation Foundation - Madagascar - Conservation Projects - Profile on Madagascar. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Antsiranana province, in the north, is virtually isolated by the islands's peak, Mt Tsaratanana, rising to 2,800m above sea level.
		Tropical crops can be grown in its fertile valleys and the natural harbour of Antsiranana is an important naval base.
		The southernmost province, Toliary (Tulear), contains most of Madagascar's known mineral deposits, as well as extensive cattle herds, despite the almost total lack of rainfall.
	www.africanconservation.org /madagascarprofile.html (741 words)

	Pan African Mining Corporation -- Properties & Projects: Madagascar
		Situated in the provinces of Toliary and Antananarivo, Madagascar.
		The property block is located east of Ambilobe situated in the Diego province.
		Located ~700km north-northeast from Antananarivo; Occurs within the northern coastal province of Antsiranana.
	panafrican.com /props.htm (421 words)

	Madagascar Influenza Update - Now 22,646 Cases With 671 Dead
		As of 22 August, the outbreak has extended to 5 out of 6 provinces in Madagascar, the exception being Antsiranana province in the north-east of the country (see map below).
		The most affected province is Fianarantsoa with 18 808 cases and 556 deaths.
		The increase in numbers may be due, in part to a standard case definition established by the Ministry of Health now being applied to all districts.
	www.rense.com /general28/mad.htm (311 words)

	WHO \| 1999 - Cholera, in Madagascar
		The cholera outbreak which began in late March has stabilized in the 2 provinces affected, and the number of reported cases has declined considerably during recent weeks.
		There is a risk that some districts in Mahajanga province (Mahajanga I and II, Marovoay and Mitsinjo) may become endemic.
		Strict control measures were implemented during the early stages of the outbreak, including: care of suspect cases in health centres and hospitals, and treatment of contacts; disinfection and other hygiene measures in treatment centres, as well as in patients' homes; widespread campaigns to educate and inform the public; and epidemiological surveillance.
	www.who.int /csr/don/1999_08_09/en/index.html (216 words)

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		Antondabe 2.2.3 Province of Taomasina The province is part of the ecoregions of the Center and East.
		b) Fianarantsoa This province is heavily populated and located partially in the highlands (in a situation comparable to that of the province of Antananarivo) and on the country's eastern coast.
		The province is characterized by very low population density, and therefore by fairly great distances between villages.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2002/02/09/000094946_02013004043031/Rendered/INDEX/multi0page.txt (9281 words)

	Madagascar: Selective justice. - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Dozens of people, predominantly Marc Ravalomanana supporters from the provinces, were also arrested, tortured or killed during this period.
		At least 73 people, most of whom were travelling traders from the province of Antananarivo, were forced out of their vehicles with threats, beaten up and tied together using rope.
		After Marc Ravalomanana’s army regained control of the provinces dozens of people were arrested without warrant and without any preliminary investigation by soldiers who had no training in arrest procedures.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGAFR350042002?open&of=ENG-MDG (9813 words)

	Welcome to Pact!
		In March Fianarantsoa became a strategic focal point in the conflict between the “legal” president and the self-proclaimed “legitimate” president, the latter claiming to have 54% of the vote in the first round and now running a “new” central government in the capital.
		As in other provinces, the Fianarantsoa public had responded with amused disinterest to a declaration of independence from the secessionist governor, and now it held the street.
		Three bridges were blown up in Fianarantsoa province alone to further isolate the capital from the rest of the country.
	www.pactworld.org /news/spotlight_madagascar.htm (3772 words)

	Ethnologue report for Madagascar
		Southwest Madagascar, Toliara Province, Toliara and Morombe districts.
		Northwest Madagascar, Mahajanga Province, Maintirano, Morafenobe, Besalampy, Soalala, Mitsinjo, Ambato Boina, Marovoay, Mahajanga, Analalava districts; Antsiranana Province, Ambanja District.
		East coast of Madagascar, Toamasina Province, Mahanoro District; Fianarantsoa Province, Nosy Varika, Mananjary, Manakara Atsimo districts.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=MG (223 words)

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		The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday that only the province of Antsiranana, in the northeast, had so far been unaffected.
		It has been particularly virulent in the poorest province, Fianarantsoa, where 556 people have died from the virus.
		But officials denied the epidemic was out of control, saying that the increase in the number of reported deaths in recent days was due to improved monitoring of the situation by health officials.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=29579 (466 words)

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