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  Madagascar - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
Madagascar, republic in the Indian Ocean, separated from the south-eastern coast of Africa by the Mozambique Channel.
Madagascar was annexed by the French in 1896 and became self-governing within the French Community in 1958 as the Malagasy Republic.
The constitution of the Fifth Republic of France was approved by 78 per cent of the Madagascan electorate in a referendum held on September 28, 1958.
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 Madagascar - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Madagascar is made up of a highland plateau fringed by a lowland coastal strip, narrow (c.30 mi/50 km) in the east and considerably wider (c.60-125 mi/100-200 km) in the west.
Madagascar carries on a relatively small foreign trade, and the annual value of imports is usually higher than the value of exports.
Madagascar's political and economic upheaval prompted the government to establish a multiparty system and move toward the privatization of industry in the 1990s.
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 Madagascar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
Madagascar (officially the Republic of Madagascar) or Malagasy Republic, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, off the southeastern coast of Africa.
The principal institutions of the Republic of Madagascar are a presidency, a parliament (National Assembly and Senate), a prime ministry and cabinet, and an independent judiciary.
Madagascar Mali • Martinique • Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Niger Republic of the Congo • Romania • Rwanda • Saint Lucia • São Tomé and Príncipe • Senegal Seychelles • Saint-Pierre and Miquelon • Switzerland Togo Tunisia • Ukraine • Vanuatu • Vietnam
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 Madagascar News
Madagascar has called for international aid to help stem a nutritional emergency that has left thousands of children malnourished in the vulnerable south.
Madagascar police acting on a tip raided a hotel room in the capital and captured the fugitive army general who led a failed coup attempt, officials said Wednesday.
Marc Ravalomanana is poised for a second term as Madagascar's president as preliminary results point to a comfortable lead for the incumbent leader in 3 December presidential polls.
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 The history of the Republic of Madagascar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
The retrospective history of the Republic of Madagascar
The economic history of the Republic of Madagascar
The culture history of the Republic of Madagascar
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 Madagascar: Facts in Brief
Madagascar is an island to the east of the southern part of Africa.
Madagascar was part of the African continent but broke off and drifted to where it is now about two million years ago.
Madagascar was governed by France from 1895, but became a republic in 1958, calling itself the Malagasy Republic.
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 Madagascar - EnchantedLearning.com
Location: The Republic of Madagascar (called Repoblikan'i Madagasikara in Malagasy) is an island country off the coast of southeastern Africa in the Indian Ocean (located about 500 km or 300 miles east of Mozambique).
Madagascar was a colony of France from 1896 to 1960.
Madagascar is one of the few countries in the world that doesn't use a decimal currency (the only other country is Mauritania).
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 Background Notes Archive - Africa
Malagasy troops fought in France, Morocco, and Syria during World War I. After France fell to the Germans in 1942, Madagascar was administered first by the Vichy Government and then by the British, whose troops occupied the strategic island to preclude its seizure by the Japanese.
According to the new constitution, the principal institutions of the Republic of Madagascar are a presidency, a parliament (National Assembly and Senate), a prime ministry and government, and an independent judiciary.
In 1990, Madagascar was designated as a priority aid recipient, and assistance increased from $15 million in 1989 to $40 million in 1993.
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 Country Pages: Madagascar
The Democratic Republic of Madagascar, formerly known as the Malagasy Republic, is perhaps best known for its spectacular nature and incredible variety of unique plant and animal life.
Madagascar is divided into east and west by the Hauts Plateaux mountain chain.
The capital of Madagascar, Antananarivo (commonly called "Tana"), is situated in the center of the island in the Hauts Plateaux.
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 Madagascar  -  Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Madagascar, republic in the Indian Ocean, separated from the southeastern coast of Africa by the Mozambique Channel.
Madagascar is made up of Madagascar Island, the fourth largest island in the world, and several small islands.
It became the republic of Madagascar in 1993 after a new constitution was adopted.
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 AFRO-Americ@: Kids Zone
100 B.C.: Madagascar was settled by migrants from Malaysian and Indonesian islands.
Madagascar is located in the Indian Ocean, east of Mozambique.
Madagascar has a narrow coastal plain with a high plateau and mountains in the center.
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The Republic of Madagascar shall be organized in decentralized territorial entities whose autonomy shall guaranteed by the Constitution.
In the Republic of Madagascar, justice shall be rendered in conformity with the Constitution and the law in the name of the Malagasy people, by the Administrative and Financial Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal, Tribunals, and the High Court of Justice.
The President of the Republic, the presidents of all the State institutions, members of the Government and of the Administrative and Financial Constitutional Court and Supreme Court shall be legally responsible for acts committed in the exercise of their duties which were crimes or misdemeanors at the time that they were committed.
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 ICL - Madagascar - Constitution
The permanent incapacity of the President of the Republic may be declared by the Constitutional Court following a resolution adopted by not less than two-thirds of the deputies in the National Assembly; for violation of the Constitution; and for any other cause duly stated and proved resulting in his permanent incapacity to exercise his duties.
The initiative to amend the Constitution shall be vested either with the President of the Republic acting in the Council of Ministers or with the National Assembly upon the proposal of one-third of its members.
Until the institutions of the Third Republic are installed, the present High Constitutional Court and Supreme Court shall continue to exercise their duties in conformity with the legislation in effect.
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 Press Release: IMF Executive Board Approves US$80.8 Million PRGF Arrangement for the Republic of Madagascar and ...
Madagascar's exchange rate regime is broadly appropriate, particularly given the economy's vulnerability to exogenous shocks.
Madagascar is one of the poorest countries in sub-Saharan Africa, ranking 146 out of 177 on the United Nations Human Development Index.
Madagascar's economy is vulnerable to exogenous shocks, such as intermittent cyclones and drought, volatility in key commodity prices (notably for oil and vanilla), the termination of the WTO's Agreement of Textiles and Clothing (ATC) in early 2005, and the expected termination in 2007 of the third party provision under the U.S.'s AGOA.
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 Madagascar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Madagascar, or Republic of Madagascar (older name Malagasy Republic), is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, off the southeastern coast of Africa.
The main island, also called Madagascar, is the fourth largest island in the world, and is home to five percent of the world's plant and animal species (more than 80 percent of which are indigenous to Madagascar).
Madagascar Mali • Martinique • Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Niger Republic of the Congo • Romania • Rwanda • Saint Lucia • São Tomé and Príncipe • Senegal Seychelles • Saint-Pierre and Miquelon • Switzerland Togo Tunisia • Vanuatu • Vietnam
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 Madagascar - The Second Republic, 1975-92
Ratsiraka was elected to a seven-year term as president in a national referendum on December 21, 1975, confirming the mandate for consensus and inaugurating Madagascar's Second Republic.
According to this document, the primary goal of the newly renamed Democratic Republic of Madagascar was to build a "new society" founded on socialist principles and guided by the actions of the "five pillars of the revolution": the SRC, peasants and workers, young intellectuals, women, and the Popular Armed Forces.
In the case of Madagascar, increasingly vocal opposition parties denounced what they and international observers considered massive fraud in the 1989 presidential election, including Ratsiraka's refusal to update outdated voting lists that excluded the anti-Ratsiraka youth vote and the stuffing of ballot boxes at unmonitored rural polling stations.
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 Madagascar (10/06)
Madagascar maintains an embassy in the United States at 2374 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008 (tel.
Madagascar, which has historically been perceived as on the margin of mainstream African affairs, eagerly rejoined the African Union in July 2003 after a 14-month hiatus triggered by the 2002 political crisis, and joined SADC in 2006.
Madagascar became the very first country with a Millennium Challenge Account compact when it signed an agreement worth $110 million in April 2006.The Ravalomanana government is especially positive about ties with the United States.
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 Madagascar - Republic of Madagascar - Country Profile - Republique de Madagascar - Repoblikan'i Madagasikara - Africa - ...
Madagascar, the Red Island, the Rainbow Island, the Eighth Continent, there are many names for the world's 4th largest island.
Madagascar is situated in the south western area of the Indian Ocean east of the coast of Africa about 400 km off the coast of Mozambique.
Madagascar is inhabited by various ethnic groups of Malayo-Indonesian, mixed African and Malayo-Indonesian, and Arab ancestry.
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 Madagascar
Madagascar's second-highest mountain, Tsiafajovona, may be seen to the west of the road from Antananarivo.
Social conventions: Visitors to Madagascar remark on the welcoming nature of the people, though some unprepared Westerners may be irritated by their relaxed attitude to time (public forms of transport, for example, will not generally move until they're full - no matter how long it takes to fill the last seat).
Madagascar has undergone steady economic growth during the 1980s and 1990s despite setbacks such as the cyclones which inflicted much damage on agriculture.
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 madagascar
For example, the temperature in Antananarivo in November is 14 C to 28 C. You may need to bring one jacket for the occasional cold spell.
Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world, 1 600 km long and 650 km wide.
Madagascar is a beautiful and unique country to visit.
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 Madagascar - HISTORY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
THE REPUBLIC OF MADAGASCAR, formerly known as the Malagasy Republic and the Democratic Republic of Madagascar, has undergone significant socioeconomic and political changes during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Philibert Tsiranana headed the conservative regime of the First Republic, which was superseded in 1975 by a Marxist-oriented military regime under Lieutenant Commander Didier Ratsiraka.
In the face of rising political dissent and socioeconomic decline that reached its height at the beginning of the 1990s, the Second Republic succumbed to the wave of democratization spreading throughout the African continent.
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 Madagascar: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
Madagascar - Madagascar, officially Democratic Republic of Madagascar, republic (2005 est.
Madagascar: Bibliography - Bibliography See R. Kent, From Madagascar to the Malagasy Republic (1962) and Early Kingdoms in...
Madagascar: Economy - Economy The economy of Madagascar is overwhelmingly agricultural, largely of a subsistence type;...
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