Two separate tropical weather systems in Madagascar have left at least 34 dead and triggered flooding and landslides, particularly in the capital, Antananarivo, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported on Tuesday. Over the last week intense rainfall has pummelled the African island country in the Indian Ocean, sparking multiple crises […]
The world’s first famine caused by climate change rather than conflict continues amid insufficient domestic and global attention. As it enters 2022, Madagascar continues to contend with a severe famine – known locally as Kere – in the south of the island. Despite being responsible for negligible percentage of carbon emissions, the country has been […]
“It wasn’t until I stood alongside my classmates in the delivery room, encouraging an anxious mother-to-be as she gave birth to a little baby boy, that I realised just how valuable this work can be.” For Tahiana Rakotovao, 24, a lifelong dream of becoming a midwife came a step closer to reality during her studies […]
Malagasy President Andry Rajoelina declared a national day of mourning Thursday to commemorate 85 people killed in a shipwreck off the country’s coast on Monday. All of the country’s flags are being flown at half-mast “in memory of the victims of the sinking of the Francia boat at Soanierana Ivongo,” the Madagascar-Tribune wrote. Maritime authorities […]
The Malagasy secretary of state for police was traveling to the site of a shipwreck along with three police officers. The cause of the crash is not yet clear, said police. Malagasy minister Serge Gelle was one of two survivors to have swum some 12 hours to shore after their helicopter crashed of the island’s […]
A Madagascar court has convicted six people, including two French citizens, to up to 20 years in prison for plotting to assassinate President Andry Rajoelina this summer. The defendants were among 20 people accused of trying to assassinate President Andry Rajoelina in July. A court on Friday found six of them guilty of plotting an […]
A new species of frog with bright red eyes and a quiet groaning call has been discovered in eastern Madagascar – but is already endangered because the forest patches where it lives are shrinking. Known in English as the rugose forest frog, the new species, with crinkled brown skin dappled and streaked with fiery red, […]
The trial of 21 people accused of planning a coup d’etat, including two French men and their wives, opens today in Madagascar. Arrested on 20th of July, Paul Rafanoharana, Philippe Francois and their wives are accused of endangering the security of the state, criminal conspiracy, and involvement in a plot to assassinate President Andry Rajoelina. […]
Durban — Widespread poverty, lack of irrigation, deforestation and COVID-19 restrictions are having a bigger effect than global warming, scientists say Climate change not main cause of Madagascar’s food insecurity Poverty, lack of irrigation, COVID-19 impacts bigger factors Need to fund food aid hurting investment in drought resilience Madagascar was thought to be facing one […]
The international community must step up support to Madagascar, where more than one million people in the south are facing severe hunger, the top UN aid official there said on Thursday in a renewed appeal for solidarity and funding. The impacts of the most acute drought in over 40 years, combined with sandstorms and pests, […]
One of Madagascar’s worst droughts in history is devastating a population where 91% live below the poverty line Reports and testimonies from parents of children dying from hunger ‘They suffered from hunger… and they died. We hardly eat anything’ – woman who has lost two children ‘Amnesty calls on the international community to ramp up […]
Many people still think of climate change as a phenomenon that we will only face in the distant future. Perhaps that’s partly because climate change projections about rising temperatures and extreme weather events are tied to future dates: 2030, 2050, or 2100, for instance. But it’s important to realise that we already are experiencing climate […]
More than one million people in southern Madagascar are struggling to get enough to eat, due to what could become the first famine caused by climate change, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). The region has been hit hard by successive years of severe drought, forcing families in rural communities to resort to desperate […]
The UN has announced that Madagascar is on the brink of experiencing the world’s first “climate change famine”. Tens of thousands of people are suffering “catastrophic” levels of hunger. Climate hazard scientist, Chris Funk, provides insights into the causes. How significant has the drought been in Madagascar? Out of the last six years in Madagascar, […]
As the African island nation experiences a food-security crisis driven by global warming, researchers say it is an alarm bell for the world The cracked red earth and sunken eyes of gaunt children, their bellies swollen from acute malnutrition, bear witness to the devastation being wrought by Madagascar’s worst drought in four decades. As the […]
Antananarivo/France — A French citizen is among six people arrested on suspicion of involvement in a plot to kill Madagascar’s president, the Indian Ocean island’s public security minister said. “One of the arrested people is French, two of them are bi-national – Malagasy and French. The three others are Malagasy,” Rodellys Fanomezantsoa Randrianarison told a […]
Authorities in Madagascar have arrested several people they believe were part of a plot to kill President Andry Rajoelina. The attorney general’s office issued a statement Thursday saying the suspects were part of a conspiracy to undermine the island nation’s security, including “the elimination and neutralization” of a number of people. The suspects include both […]
Two Frenchmen were among several people arrested in Madagascar following a failed assassination attempt on President Andry Rajoelina. Prosecutors said the arrests were made on Tuesday as part of an investigation into an attack on state security. It’s understood the men, named as dual Franco-Malagasy national Paul Rafanoharana and Frenchman Philippe François, have been charged […]