Madagascar

Back-to-back droughts in southern Madagascar are driving 400,000 people to starvation and have already caused a number of deaths, the UN World Food Program said. Lola Castro, WFP's regional director for southern Africa, told a news conference on Friday that she witnessed "a very dramatic and desperate situation" during her recent visit to the Indian Ocean island nation of 26 million people. Hundreds of adults and children were "wasted" and hundreds of children were skin and bones and received…

Drug trafficking and consumption are rising and diversifying within the Indian Ocean, particularly in Madagascar, the Seychelles and Mauritius. The NGO World Initiative towards Transnational Organized Crime (World Initiative) has researched and revealed a report on drug trafficking and its improvement lately on this a part of the world.…

Will Africans be able to travel to Europe this summer? At present, in any case, most people are still unable to travel to France and most EU countries, despite the reopening of borders. Only vaccines that have already been approved by the European Medicines Agency are currently accepted on "passsanitaire" of the 27. The Covishield vaccine is not one of them and this clarification has triggered…

Demonstrations by students who demanded their unpaid scholarships for nine months have degenerated in the southern part of the country, leaving one student dead and another seriously injured, according to the report from the gendarmerie on the spot. The arrears were paid out yesterday Monday after almost two weeks of demonstrations.…

While southern Madagascar is experiencing a terrible food crisis, on Friday 18 June, Prime Minister Christian Ntsay received the World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director, David Beasley, on a courtesy visit to the country, as well as the organization's Country Director, Moumini Ouedraogo. The President of the Republic Andry Rajoelina, who is traveling to France for private reasons (confirmation of his…

Generation Equality Forum (FGE) is a global gathering for gender equality held in Paris from June 30 to July 2. It was also available on the Big Island and opened on Thursday, June 17 through six themes: climate justice, technological innovation, sexual and reproductive health, or gender-based violence. as reported from…

On Saturday, June 15, Andry Rajoeilina listed a series of major projects to be implemented primarily for the development of the Anosy and Androy regions. Two disaster-based, framed regions that regularly experience drought and severe malnutrition. "It is a solemn promise that I will make to get the great south out of poverty,"…

Heroin, cocaine, cannabis, but also more recently synthetic cannabis and methamphetamine: drug trafficking and consumption are increasing and diversifying in the Indian Ocean, especially in Madagascar, the Seychelles and Mauritius. The NGO's global initiative against cross-border organized crime has been researched and published…

The decree, dated June 8, appeared yesterday Thursday in the French official newspaper. This makes the archipelago the glorious islands, which belong to the scattered islands, the 170th French nature reserve. The glorious islands, located in the Mozambique Channel, and French possession, were still part of the islets that Madagascar claimed against France since 1973. The claim was repeated by President…

In keeping with the Division of Well being, the height of the coronavirus epidemic handed two weeks in the past, in response to the top of well being promotion. Instances are beginning to decline after a notably lethal second wave in April. as reported from Antananarivo, Laure Verneau“We have now fewer sufferers in hospitals.…