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Background: Formerly an independent kingdom, Madagascar became a French colony in 1896, but regained its independence in 1960. During 1992-93, free presidential and National Assembly elections were held, ending 17 years of single-party rule. In 1997, in the second presidential race, Didier RATSIRAKA, the leader during the 1970s and 1980s, was returned to the presidency. The 2001 presidential election was contested between the followers of Didier RATSIRAKA and Marc RAVALOMANANA, nearly causing secession of half of the country. In April 2002, the High Constitutional Court announced RAVALOMANANA the winner.

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By espritlibre
September 24th 2007

Change of plan... Africa » Madagascar » Ambositra

Have finally started to get a bit more organised for Mada... just over a week before I'm due to leave :S (hey, I'm a last-minute kinda gal) Got my insurance sorted (always important), booked a flight home from Paris (also kind of useful) and went shopping for today for anti-mosquito stuff and anti-sunburn stuff. God I cannot WAIT to be able to write more interesting entries than this! Just found out our placement's been moved from Moramanga to Ambositra. Check out pictures of it here - looking good! We still get our long [View Full Entry]

By Frederic on the road
September 23rd 2007

Madagascar sucks... Africa » Madagascar » Antananarivo

Baobab

Or maybe not..... So first of all in this Blog you'll find: 1) PLENTY of photos 2) A very negative comment as I have to get it off my chest 3) a text that Nadja wrote about most of what we did till now. (I use her text as I have spent a lot of time uploading the pictures. So what's wrong????? We have been very dissapointed by the "friendliness" of the Malagasy. Madagascar is not a country to travel "independently". As long as you travel in group and pay a LOT of money, you get plenty of nice smiles. But [View Full Entry]

By Rach queen of the lemurs
September 22nd 2007

crazy 2 weeks Africa » Madagascar

has been a pretty crazy 2 weeks. not got much time so it will have to be in brief. returned to the forest and was back to my same old routine. then at the end of the day on tuesday i got a lift back from the forest by one of the ourist cars. got chatting to them and they offered me a free ride upto the Tsingy in the north. So packed bags organised things and i was off in the morning. took the whole day of driving to get there including two very interesting ferry trips. by ferrys i [View Full Entry]

By Rach queen of the lemurs
September 8th 2007

weekend of 14th september Africa » Madagascar

i am back from another 2 week stint in the forest. first few nights were alittle restless as i acquired a room mate. a madagascan rat with a big bushy tail. kept me up all night cos i was trying to work out what he was nibbling away on. had vesions of him eating through daves rucksack straps, which i dont think would please him too much and would make getting my stuff home a little more complicated!i got a trap to catch him the next night, which i soon did. but this was no normal animal, when i tried to [View Full Entry]

By espritlibre
September 6th 2007

One month to go... Africa » Madagascar » Moramanga

So... This time in one month I will be on a plane bound for Madagascar. Actually, if we're being pedantic, this time in one month I will probably be asleep in my hotel room in Paris as the flight isn't till 4:30pm, but let's not get picky! For those that don't know (and as I have yet to inform any of my friends of this website, that's currently 100% of you!) I'm off to Madagascar in October for 2 months to volunteer with the Dodwell Trust I'll be living in Moramanga (land of the cheap mangos!) and teaching English to schoolchildren, [View Full Entry]

By Joey Eakins
August 29th 2007

My Summer Job is Finished Africa » Madagascar

Me on the peak(2,658meters)
This is me on Pic Boby. It is the second highest peak in Madagascar but the highest accessible

Hello All. I am back at my site after a very interesting summer. I spent the last two months working in Andringitra National Park. I was teaching the guides and locals English. It was an exciting adventure filled with many interesting stories. I actually taught more there than I do at site which was okay because it made time move a little faster. At the park, my life was considerably different than at site. I didn't have electricity but sometimes the family that I was living with would start up their generator and watch a movie. The highlight of the whole [View Full Entry]

By Titantrigger
August 28th 2007

boytime Africa » Madagascar

hmmmm. So... 25 days before I go. Or something approaching that. It was my last day at work today. which felt very weird. After 10 years and 2 months, it was somewhat of an anti-climax. Mind you, I'll actually be popping in for a couple more days before I go so it didn't really feel finally final. Today's list was quite short - swim, take my homeopathic remedy, have my hepatitis and rabies jabs (2nd of three), go to work, finish everything (!), deliver press training, leave work. I didn't actually have any madagascar admin to do at all... so I [View Full Entry]

By Titantrigger
August 27th 2007

pre trip preparations Africa » Madagascar

Well, 26 days until I leave. Feeling relatively calm still about the job and about upping sticks and moving to another country (that I've never been to before) for a year. Feeling less calm about everything in between now and leaving though! I have lists coming out of my ears. But it's the best way to get organised and what doesn't get ticked off before I go, just won't get ticked off.... Anyway, I'm trying to work out how easy it is to actually post on this blog as, chances are, it won't actually be me that's doing the physical posting [View Full Entry]

By Rach queen of the lemurs
August 26th 2007

photos Africa » Madagascar

Boabob alley

here are a couple of photos so you can get an idea of what its like here and hopefully they will show how beautifuil it is here. [View Full Entry]

By Rach queen of the lemurs
August 25th 2007

been gone over a month Africa » Madagascar

since i last wrote on here i have spent 2 weeks in the forest. living on rice 3 times a day and using the 'toilet' (a hole in the ground), sleeping in a tent and being woken by scurryings outsiode and there was even some hoping the other night. god knows what that was. a giant frog maybe! but everything runs away from me before i can get out of my tent to find out what it is. my days consist of a 30 min walk into the forest which is 60km from the nearest town already. 15 mins of that [View Full Entry]

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