Madagascar : News

[Daily News]THE Southern African Development Community on Friday urged Madagascar leader Andry Rajoelina not to run in upcoming elections to ensure peace and stability on the troubled island. (AllAfrica)

[AEP]Madagascar will go ahead with a planned presidential election in July, an international mediator said on Sunday, days after the leader of the Indian Ocean island reneged on a promise not to run. (AllAfrica)

SANHANGY-TSIALIH 13 February 2013 (IRIN) - After years of underfunding its locust management programme, Madagascar is threatened by a major swarm that could infest most of the island country. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 30 January 2013 (IRIN) - Frederik Ngubane was born in South Africa to South African parents 22 years ago but, lacking any proof of his origins or nationality, he lives a shadowy, marginal existence. He cannot travel, study or secure formal employment and has lost count of how many times he has been arrested for being undocumented. (irinnews.org)

ANTANANARIVO 06 November 2012 (IRIN) - Incomes have slipped to their lowest level in a decade since Madagascar’s 2009 coup d’etat, and, in parallel, domestic violence has sharply risen. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 22 October 2012 (IRIN) - The African Union’s (AU) deadline for securing the continent’s territorial waters - the world’s last major geographical region without a maritime strategy - has been set at 2050, a target that may prove untenable. (irinnews.org)

THE Southern African Development Community on Friday urged Madagascar leader Andry Rajoelina not to run in upcoming elections to ensure peace and stability on the troubled island.

Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina will stand for re-election in July, despite earlier assurances that he would not run to help return stability to the Indian Ocean island nation.

Madagascar will go ahead with a planned presidential election in July, an international mediator said on Sunday, days after the leader of the Indian Ocean island reneged on a promise not to run.

[]The Special Election Court has been studying applications from 49 presidential hopefuls. (AllAfrica)

[IRIN]Toliara -Health experts fear the interruption of food assistance in Madagascar is increasing incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in Toliara, the capital city of Madagascar's southern Atsimo-Andrefana region. (AllAfrica)

[AEP]Former president of Madagascar Didier Ratsirakawill be contesting in the upcoming July 2013 general elections in Madagascar in a bid to rule the nation for the third time, after returning from his eleven year exile in France last week. (AllAfrica)

TOLIARA 01 May 2013 (IRIN) - Health experts fear the interruption of food assistance in Madagascar is increasing incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in Toliara, the capital city of Madagascar’s southern Atsimo-Andrefana region. (irinnews.org)

ST AUGUSTIN 08 April 2013 (IRIN) - Farmers in Madagascar’s southwestern province of Tulear have been hit hard, first by floods and then by locusts, threatening food security in a region already among the poorest in the island country. (irinnews.org)

AMPASIMANJEVA 22 January 2013 (IRIN) - Even after days on an antibiotic regime, three-month-old Jean Marie Anselme struggles to breathe and eat at the Fondation Médical d'Ampasimanjeva, a hospital in Vatovavy-Fitovinany Region, in southeastern Madagascar. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI 18 January 2013 (IRIN) - Africa could reduce its poverty levels faster by focusing more on the production of staples rather than export crops, according to a study by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). (irinnews.org)

AMBOASARY 15 January 2013 (IRIN) - The dry, spiny forests of southern Madagascar comprise one of the most unique ecosystems in the world, but they are becoming increasingly endangered as residents of the arid, food-insecure region cut down trees to make way for cultivation and to produce charcoal. (irinnews.org)

AMBOVOMBE 28 December 2012 (IRIN) - The provision of school lunches to 215,000 children in 1,200 primary schools in southern Madagascar could be suspended by the end of January 2013 if the World Food Programme (WFP) fails to make up a funding shortfall of US$4.84 million. The funds are needed to cover the cost of running the feeding scheme from December 2012 to May 2013. (irinnews.org)

AMPASIMANJEVA 21 December 2012 (IRIN) - It took three days for Nisehotsara, a farmer’s wife from Betraka, a village on Madagascar’s east coast, to deliver her 10th child. After the difficult birth, she woke up to find her bed soaked with urine. (irinnews.org)

BETRAKA 12 December 2012 (IRIN) - Madagascar’s traditional midwives, or ‘matronnes’, are often thought to undermine safe childbirth practices, delivering babies in unsanitary environments and without provisions to manage complications. Yet they are now being recruited to a campaign to get women to deliver in clinics or hospitals, part of a move to lower maternal and newborn death rates. (irinnews.org)

AMBOHIMANGA ROVA 06 December 2012 (IRIN) - Liliana Lova Rahoaritsalamanirinarisoa, 25, a single mother from the village of Ambohimanga Rova, about 24km east of Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo, is confident about the future - despite her daily struggles. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI 06 December 2012 (IRIN) - Price Watch (Our lives) (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI 06 December 2012 (IRIN) - The African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) 2009, also known as the Kampala Convention, came into force on 6 December; it is the world’s first legally binding instrument to cater specifically to people displaced within their own countries. (irinnews.org)

ANTANANARIVO 06 December 2012 (IRIN) - Thierry Mafisy Miharivonjy Razafindranaivo, 26, is one of three cooks in a local fast food restaurant in Antananarivo, Madagascar’s capital. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 23 November 2012 (IRIN) - A US$6.1 million funding shortfall is jeopardizing the World Food Programme’s (WFP) practice of pre-positioning relief supplies in many areas vulnerable to cyclones. The practice results in quicker response times to Madagascar’s clockwork-like natural disasters. (irinnews.org)

ANTANANARIVO 21 November 2012 (IRIN) - Former gang member Robert, 62, shares a cell with 145 other inmates in Antanimora Prison in Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo. He receives one meal a day of dried cassava. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 19 October 2012 (IRIN) - Eighty-three percent of Madagascar’s palm species - which are a vital source of both food and building materials - are threatened by extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) latest Red List of Threatened Species, published on 17 October. (irinnews.org)

BEVILANY 28 September 2012 (IRIN) - In 2010, scores of bandits attacked Bevilany, a charcoal-producing settlement in Madagascar’s southern Anosy Region. By the time the fight was over, 11 outlaws and one ‘zamasi’ - a security guard hired by a community for protection - were dead. (irinnews.org)

TAOLAGNARO 24 September 2012 (IRIN) - Yvan Razafimandimby, 22, was working at the family store in the Taolagnaro neighbourhood of Anbounato, Madagascar, when two soldiers arrived to inform him that his 50-year-old father was killed by bandits. (irinnews.org)

Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina will stand for re-election in July, despite earlier assurances that he would not run to help return stability to the Indian Ocean island nation.

Madagascar's president Andry Rajoelina will run in July's election, an official list of presidential candidates showed on Friday, reneging on an agreement he would not do so.