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Chinese trains for TGV

The latest deals mark the government’s biggest turn towards the East since the political crisis and subsequent reduction in international support

President Andry Rajoelina – nicknamed ‘TGV’ after France’s high-speed train – wants to leave a train service as his legacy when he steps down from power in 2011. On 6 November, he held a bright lights and glamour political show at the Palais des Sports de Mahamasina and launched several big new projects which, President Rajoelina predicts, will transform the island’s economy....

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