Madagascar News
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Madagascar's strongman leader Andry Rajoelina said Friday he was ready to make a political agreement with the president he ousted ahead of new elections. Rajoelina said after talks with UN leader Ban Ki-moon that he wanted to hold the elections as soon as possible but would not commit to a deadline for a vote nor to letting his predecessor Marc
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Antananarivo - Madagascar police announced on Saturday it had found the body of a missing Frenchman whose pregnant girlfriend was murdered a week ago on a deserted beach. Gerald Fontaine, 41, had been missing since the discovery of his girlfriend Johanna Delahaye's body near the southwestern coastal town of Tulear, where the couple had been running a restaurant. "We can
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Ousted Madagascar president Marc Ravalomanana will not be allowed back to the island state despite draft amnesty legislation released in Antananarivo, his spokesman said on Wednesday. "The draft legislation says murderers are not supposed to be covered by the amnesty," Mutumwa Mawere told AFP from South Africa. Ravalomanana, who lives in exile in South Africa, was convicted in absentia of
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Antananarivo — Less than two weeks after being battered by Cyclone Giovanna, another violent storm has swept over Madagascar killing 72 people and leaving 70,000 homeless, according to the National Disaster Risk Management Agency. Tropical storm Irina brought heavy rains, especially in the southeast of the country around the towns of Mananjary and Manakara, starting late on 26 February. While
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At least 72 people were killed and 78,000 left homeless in Madagascar in the wake of Tropical Storm Irina, the disaster management agency said Wednesday. The storm struck on February 26 but spun off a series of storms which have drenched the Indian Ocean island over the last week. The district of Ifanadiana, 400 kilometres (250 miles) southeast of the
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Antananarivo - Tropical Storm Irina has killed at least 65 people in Madagascar, most of them residents of the Ifanadiana district in the southeast of the island, weather authorities said on Monday. Three people were also reported missing, according to the national bureau of natural catastrophes (BNGRC), which did not provide any other details. Earlier it was reported that only
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Madagascar has missed a Wednesday deadline set by a regional body for the adoption of an amnesty law that would clear the way for ousted leader Marc Ravalomanana to return home. The 15-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) had given Madagascar until the end of February to approve the law, after Ravalomanana attempted to fly home on January 22 --
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) voiced concern today that waterborne diseases may soon spread in the areas of Madagascar that were pummelled by Cyclone Giovanna earlier this week. The provisional death toll from the disaster has reached 17, UNICEF spokesperson Marixie Mercado told reporters in Geneva, with information not yet in from all cyclone-affected areas, which are largely concentrated
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Antananarivo - At least five people have died and 10 are missing after cyclone Giovanna struck Madagascar, National Disaster Management Office officials said on Wednesday. Hundreds of people were homeless following the category 4 storm, and the number was expected to rise as further assessments are made in remote areas. Houses, often made of just bamboo and wood, were washed
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A category four tropical storm, Cyclone Giovanna, is expected to make landfall on 14 February close to the Madagascan east coast town of Toamasina and thereafter head for the capital Antananarivo. "This is a particularly strong one [cyclone] and we have not seen one like this for some years... If Giovanna lives up to the category four predictions and hits
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Madagascar's transitional president, Andry Rajoelina, is facing internal revolt in his inner circle as he battles to stave off implementation of the SADC elections roadmap and hold on to power on the troubled island. Some members of his government and the judiciary are now privately calling on the ex-disk jockey to step down. Rajoelina has colluded with some senior military,
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If I were a Somali I would thank Allah for the pirates. For more than 20 years the world has stood by while successive civil wars destroyed the country, killing hundreds of thousands of people by bullets, disease and starvation and reducing what was once a prosperous land to a war zone. But the seizure of more than 200 ships
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South Africa says efforts to mediate a solution to Madagascar's political crisis have been frustrated by the irresponsible behaviour of the Indian Ocean island nation's rival leaders. South African Deputy International Relations Minister Marius Fransman gave his blunt assessment before heading into a meeting on Tuesday with factions from Madagascar, which has been in turmoil since Marc Ravalomanana was toppled
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Madagascar's authorities wanted a plane carrying former leader Marc Ravalomanana to land away from the capital so he could be arrested without trouble from his supporters, officials said. Ravalomanana's plane was turned back from the capital Antananarivo because of the risk of "certain troubles from Marc Ravalomanana activists", said a statement released late Saturday by Madagascar's transitional authorities. Officials wanted
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Madagascar's exiled president has flown out of Johannesburg, headed home to possible arrest. Marc Ravalomanana sat next to his wife in the front row of Saturday'sSouth African Airways flight. Journalists and aides accompanied the couple. Security officials in Madagascar have said he will be arrested if he returns. Ravalomanana says arresting him would be unlawful and would
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Antananarivo — Researchers in Madagascar have spotted early warning signals on locusts that could indicate when they are about to swarm. Reading a series of colour changes that correspond with increasing densities of the red locust (Nomadacris septemfasciata) - which is a threat to rice-growing zones - could lead to better control measures, they report. It is already known that
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Majestic trees line the dusty road known as the Avenue of the Baobabs, their large trunks crowned with clawing branches that reach 20 metres (70 feet) high. These giants seem immortal but the trees -- national symbols of Madagascar -- are only alive thanks to a last-minute rescue operation that kept them from drowning. "A sugar mill diverted water to
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Razafindramanga is a prisoner in her own home. At 78 years old, she can no longer navigate the maze of wooden planks that pass for bridges linking the settlements in low-lying areas of Madagascar's capital. The capital Antananarivo was built on hillsides, but recent arrivals from the countryside have settled among rice paddies in low-lying regions, pushing them up against
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Madagascar's economy is dominated by a few big businesses and an informal sector, but everyone in between has been squeezed since a 2009 coup dampened tourism and led donors to cut off aid. "Small and medium-sized businesses are less stable. With less liquidity, they are less equipped for coping with the difficulties," said Noro Andriamamonjiarison, head of the Madagascar Business
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Mangroves spread over thousands of hectares of Madagascar's west coast, rich with fish and crabs, but fishermen have declared some areas off limits, seeking to ensure future catches. "The communities chose to close several sites for four months of the year, to allow the crabs and fish to reproduce," said Thomas of Blue Ventures, a British marine conservation group, who
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Madagascan opposition groups accepted to join a unity government Wednesday and an exiled ex-president announced he will return home, offering hopes of ending the island nation's persistent crisis. Ousted president Marc Ravalomanana's party and that of former president Albert Zafy said they reversed their initial rejection of the 35-member cabinet announced on Monday after talks with de facto government officials.
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Antananarivo — Malagasy's new Prime Minister Jean Omer Beriziky has been sworn in at a ceremony in the capital, Antananarivo. Mr Beriziky was chosen by the Indian Ocean island nation's four main political parties through consensus. His swearing-in came five days after his official appointment by interim President Andry Rajoelina to head a new transitional government. The predecessor, Gen Albert
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Antalaha — Mamysoa realized she had a problem after she stepped too close to the fire. "I burned my foot quite badly, but it hardly hurt at all," she recalled.
The 20-year-old housekeeper recently became one of five new cases of leprosy that Abdoul Zamandrahengo detects every month from his tiny public clinic in Antalaha, a
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On Saturday, political leaders in Madagascar finally signed the roadmap that is likely to resolve the ongoing political crisis.
The deal that was brokered by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) provides a political arrangement that paves the way for presidential and parliamentary elections, crucial steps towards the return of political normalcy in Madagascar.
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Antananarivio - Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina bowed to foreign pressure on Saturday and signed a political road map that allows for the unconditional return of his exiled predecessor ahead of elections within a year, mediators and political parties said.
All but one of Madagascar's three main opposition parties signed the agreement, which a European diplomat said
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