Families in southern Madagascar are on the edge of starvation as the country faces its worst drought in four decades. People are food insecure as severe droughts in Madagascar have led to a total disappearance of food sources.

Madagascar faces its worst drought in four decades, families on edge of starvation

Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina survived an assassination attempt on Tuesday. Authorities have said that it foiled an assassination attempt on Rajoelina and arrested several "foreign and Malagasy" suspects.

Madagascar govt reveals plot to kill President Andry Rajoelina, two arrested

Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina survived an assassination attempt on Tuesday, according to the prosecutor general's office. Authorities allegedly foiled an assassination attempt on Rajoelina and apprehended several "foreigners and Madagascar natives.

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina reportedly survives assassination attempt

Communities in Madagascar are on the verge of starvation, with women and children walking for hours to reach food after the worst drought in four decades devastated the south of the island, the World Food Programme said.

Madagascar communities on verge of starvation after drought: World Food Programme

Madagascar on Saturday received its first batch of coronavirus vaccines through the Covax global sharing scheme, one of the last countries in Africa to obtain the prised jabs following months of resistance by the president.

Madagascar receives first coronavirus vaccines

Indian Naval Ship Jalashwa reached the port of Antsiranana, Madagascar on Friday with an Indian naval training team on-board. The Indian naval training team will be deployed in Madagascar for capacity building and training of the Malagasy Special Forces for two weeks.

INS Jalashwa arrives at Antsiranana port, Madagascar with naval training team 

Reaching out to Madagascar yet again, India will be sending 1000 tonnes of rice and malaria medicine to the Indian Ocean island country. Southern Madagascar has been impacted by devastating famine and according to a November 2020 report by the World Food Programme, families are forced to eat insects.

India-Madagascar FMs talk; New Delhi to send 1000 tonnes of rice and malaria medicines

Orchids are not often called ugly, but that is how the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London, described a new species of the normally vibrant and delicate flower discovered in the forests of Madagascar.

An orchid only a botanist could love

Indian Ambassador in Madagascar Abhay Kumar on Monday expressed his solidarity with people facing drought situation in South of Madagascar. Kumar called on Foreign Minister of Madagascar Tehindrazanarivelo and expressed his concern over the drought situation in the southern part of Madagascar.

Indian Ambassador Abhay Kumar expresses solidarity with people facing drought in Madagascar

Madagascar is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster. 3 years of drought & a prolonged famine has forced some people to eat 'white clay' to quell their hunger.

Gravitas: The Sand-eaters of Madagascar

In the drought-ravaged south of Madagascar, people are filling their bellies with white clay mixed with tamarind to cope with famine. "We call it survival soil because it allows the acidic taste of tamarind to seep into our mouths, which staves off hunger," said Doday Fandilava Noelisona, a 35-year-old farmer in the village of Fenoaivo.

Humanitarian disaster: Clay quelling hunger in famine-hit Madagascar

Twenty inmates were killed in a shootout with police during a prison breakout in Madagascar on Sunday, the justice ministry said. Scores of prisoners attacked guards with rocks and grabbed a gun as they tried to flee the Farafangana prison in the southeast of the Indian Ocean island, it said.

20 inmates killed in Madagascar prison breakout

An education minister in Madagascar has been sacked after an alleged plan to order lollipops worth $2 million for school children.

Madagascar minister sacked over $2M candy plan

An education minister in Madagascar has been sacked after an alleged plan to order lollipops worth $2 million for school children. Rijasoa Andriamanana, Madagascar’s education minister, had ordered the candies to help mask the bitter aftertaste of a still-untested herbal remedy for coronavirus, according to the BBC.

The Prime minister of Madagascar Christian Ntsay has thanked India for the relief assistance it has provided to the African country in the aftermath of the devastating floods and said Indian Navy's presence is a "welcomed" one.

Madagascar welcomes India's help in dealing with floods

The Prime minister of Madagascar Christian Ntsay has thanked India for the relief assistance to the African country in the aftermath of the devastating floods. PM Ntsay said Indian Navy's presence is a "welcomed" one.

Madagascar welcomes India's help to deal with floods; PM Ntsay says Indian Navy's presence is welcomed

Two people were killed in Madagascar after Cyclone Belna landed in the northwest of the country, causing heavy flooding and displacing hundreds, local authorities said Tuesday.

At least two dead after Cyclone Belna hits Madagascar

Pope Francis, on a visit to Madagascar, on Sunday condemned what he said was its clan culture of privilege and corruption that allows a very few to live in wealth while the vast majority languish in grinding poverty.

Pope Francis, on Madagascar visit, condemns clan culture of privilege, graft

The world is backsliding in the fight against measles, which can disable or kill, especially children, with a record number of cases recorded up to August only since 2006 and nearly three times as many cases than in July 2018 at that time, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. The biggest outbreaks of the highly contagious disease -- one person with measles can spread it up to 18 non-immunized other people -- are raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo (155,460 cases), Madagascar (127,454) and Ukraine (54,246) it said.

Global measles cases three times higher than last year - WHO

Pope Francis will visit disaster-hit Mozambique and Indian Ocean nations Madagascar and Mauritius in September, the Vatican announced on Wednesday. The visit is scheduled at a time when the countries are reeling under the adverse consequences of the disaster that hit the East-African and Indian ocean nations early this month.

Pope to visit disaster hit Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius in September

Madagascar`s president, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, conceded defeat in his bid for a second term after managing a distant third in the first round of voting in the island`s presidential vote.

Madagascar president concedes defeat in polls: Statement

Former Madagascar president Andry Rajoelina was leading after last week's presidential election aimed at ending a political crisis, ahead of rival Marc Ravalomanana, according to preliminary results released on Sunday.

Madagascar ex-president Rajoelina leads in vote count: Initial results

Madagascar votes on Wednesday for a new president in unprecedented polls in which the three front-runners are former heads of state facing-off amid efforts to defuse a political crisis.

Madagascar goes to the polls to pick next president

'I will tender my resignation to the president today. As a statesman, I cannot be an obstacle to the life of the nation,' Olivier Mahafaly Solonandrasana told a press briefing

Madagascar prime minister announces resignation

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