Indian Ocean Express

Tourist arrivals increased by 6,7 % en 2024 Maurice a accueilli l’an passé 1 382 177 touristes extérieurs, figure in 6,7 % compared to 2023. At 1,300 arrivals near, The island does not manage to regain its level of attendance of 2019, reference year before the health crisis. The average length of stay of outdoor visitors is ...

Madagascar Airlines en codeshare avec Air France Depuis le 4 février, Air France flies in code sharing with Madagascar Airlines on the Paris-Antananarivo line, that it operates four to five times a week. This codeshare in particular allows customers of the Malagasy company to continue their trip to Air France to Marseille and Lyon, But also other destinations in Europe ....

Un carrefour des dirigeants à Antananarivo Le Syndicat des industries de Madagascar et l’agence de communication Becom organisent les 5 et 6 décembre à Tananarive le premier CEO Summit, which aims to bring together 500 economic and institutional leaders from the Indian Ocean region. “Madagascar’s private sector sees the full potential of this region, and he is....

Lettuce : récolte en baisse La campagne de récolte des letchis a débuté le 12 novembre sur la côte est de Madagascar, in a gloomy atmosphere. The unfavorable weather conditions of the previous months raised fears of a significant drop in production, which is however much greater than the volumes exported. The floor price for purchasing fruit from collectors per....

Objectif neutralité carbone en 2050 Les Seychelles ont présenté fin octobre leur projet visant à atteindre la neutralité carbone à l’horizon 2050, in line with the objectives of the 2015 Paris Agreement. The Seychelles project has two main axes : reducing human emissions, particularly those from transport and industries using fossil fuels, and compensation..

IBL se désengage d’AfrAsia Bank Le groupe mauricien IBL a annoncé mi-novembre son projet de cession de la participation de 30 % qu’il détient dans AfrAsia Bank à son homologue londonienne Access Bank UK, also established in Paris and Dubai. IBL is thus seeking to reduce its debt, without giving up its investment projects beyond the borders of....

Renforcement de la coopération avec le Mozambique L’adhésion du Mozambique au programme européen de coopération régionale Interreg ouvre de nouveaux horizons à Mayotte. A program monitoring committee, organized at the end of October in Mozambique, made it possible to define the priority areas : agriculture and short circuits, maritime and air connectivity. In this domain, the Mozambican airline LAM...

The African Development Bank (BAD) and the Union of the Comoros signed on October 1 a financing agreement covering 70 billion Comorian francs (approximately 142 million euros) concerning the rehabilitation of the country's ports and the creation of a special economic zone dedicated to inter-island trade. This is the largest ADB financing granted to....

Reprise touristique confirmée Les derniers chiffres de la fréquentation touristique malgache confirment la reprise du secteur, which, however, has not yet returned to the level before the health crisis. At least August, the Big Island welcomed nearly 24,000 external visitors, a little more than in August 2023, but less than in August 2019 (27,000 arrivals). In the field of air transport,...

Souveraineté partiellement retrouvée sur les Chagos Un litige territorial vieux de plus d’un demi-siècle a été tranché le 3 octobre. That day, the United Kingdom and Mauritius have reached an agreement on the sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago. Mauritius regains its sovereignty over Chagos, which were directly administered by London since 1965. The atolls had, in addition, been emptied...