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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. Andry Rajoelina, who seized power in a coup in 2009, had said in January he would not put his name forward, bowing to pressure from regional powers
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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. Malnutrition and TB are intimately linked: Malnutrition weakens the immune system, increasing susceptibility to the disease, while TB reduces appetite, worsens the absorption of micronutrients and alters patients' metabolism. Donors suspended all
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The wife of Madagascar's ousted President Marc Ravalomanana has filed in her papers to stand in the country's presidential elections slated for July 2013. The former First Lady Lalao Ravalomanana who fled to South Africa with her husband after he was forced out of power must have her candidacy approved by the country's electoral court as she has not lived
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Tensions are escalating in Mozambique where there is a dangerous stand-off between several hundred armed supporters of the main opposition party, Renamo and the Mozambican police. Renamo's leader Afonso Dhlakama has admitted to ordering a recent attack on a police station that killed four officers, and he has warned of further attacks. The current confrontation grows out of Renamo's rejection
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Sambaina — A Millennium Village in Madagascar is learning to stand on its own as five years of support from the UN Development Programme (UNDP) come to an end this month. The Millennium Villages Project dates back to 2004, when it was launched by the UN in conjunction with the Earth Institute at Columbia University and the international nonprofit Millennium
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Toliara - With small, silent steps, 10-year-old Borikely carefully picks her way through the tall grass of a Madagascar field in search of her dinner. She's hunting for grasshoppers, which she'll catch with a stick. Once speared, she places them carefully in a small round straw basket and within a few minutes, she has collected dozens of insects. This is
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Antananarivo — National disaster authorities and aid agencies are struggling to reach remote areas of Madagascar's southwestern coast where thousands of people are thought to have been made homeless by Tropical Cyclone Haruna, which made landfall on 22 February as a powerful category two cyclone. According to the country's National Disaster Risk Management Office (BNGRC), over 17,000 people have been
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Antananarivo - Tropical cyclone Haruna and rains that lashed the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar killed 10 people and affected nearly 3 000 this week, the disaster management agency said on Saturday. The cyclone struck on Friday morning in the southwest region and left the island 24 hours later, having claimed six lives and hurt 17, it said. Four other
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Severe flooding in southern Mozambique has affected a quarter of a million people, while heavy rains are pounding the north of the country and a tropical cyclone threatens the island of Madagascar, the United Nations said on Wednesday. Floods that started around 10 days ago have killed at least 48 people in the south of Mozambique, and 146,000 people are
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The president of Madagascar's transitional government, Andry Rajoelina, has followed in the footsteps of his predecessor, Marc Ravalomanana and has announced he will not run in the upcoming presidential elections. However, L'Express de Madagascar reports from Antananarivo that it remains to be seen whether the crisis triggered by Rajoelina's seizure of power from Ravalomanana nearly four years ago has finally
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Contrary to the expectations of SADC (Southern African Development Community), Andry Rajoelina, the man who seized power in Madagascar in 2009 has not given any promise that he will not stand in this year’s presidential elections on the island. Rajoelina, who now calls himself President of the Madagascar Transitional Authority, was invited to address a summit in Dar es Salaam
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Dar es Salaam - Madagascan leader Andry Rajoelina said there had been "significant progress" at talks in Tanzania to end his country's three-year-old political crisis, but headed home on Saturday without striking a conclusive deal to end the stalemate. Mediators have been struggling to find a way to restore constitutional rule in Madagascar since Rajoelina ousted former president Marc Ravalomanana
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Betraka — 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. "We have more work than
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Antanarivo - Amnesty International on Tuesday called on Madagascar to rein in its "rampaging" security forces after a crackdown on cattle-rustling gangs killed dozens of people, including children, in the south of the country. Amnesty cited witnesses that claimed children, elderly people and the physically disabled "were burned alive when security forces indiscriminately set fire to villages as part of
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Madagascar will hold a much-delayed presidential election in May, a key step in ending a protracted crisis sparked by a coup in 2009, the electoral commission announced Wednesday. The announcement comes just six days after high-stakes talks between ousted leader Marc Ravalomanana and the man who toppled him three years ago, Andry Rajoelina -- the first time the rivals had
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Malagasy political rivals Andry Rajoelina and Marc Ravalomanana will hold follow-up talks in the coming weeks after this week's talks, facilitated by South African President Jacob Zuma, fell short of a solution for the east African island nation's political future. This week's meeting, held in the Seychelles, saw transitional president Andry Rajoelina and the man he toppled, Marc Ravalomanana, meeting
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Madagascan leader Andry Rajoelina and the man he toppled in 2009, Marc Ravalomanana, met Wednesday on a remote Seychelles island to force a breakthrough in reconciliation efforts. "The face-to-face talks between the Madagascan transitional president and his predecessor began this morning on the island of Desroches," a Seychelles government official said. The pair met alongside South African President Jacob Zuma,
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Antananarivo - Opposition radio Free FM has stopped broadcasting due to intimidation by Madagascar's military in the wake of a weekend mutiny, station manager Lalatiana Rakotondrazafy told AFP on Tuesday. "We won't resume broadcasting until I am sure that there will be no more intimidation," she told AFP. Soldiers first came to the station on Sunday morning, as the mutiny
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Madagascar's leader Andry Rajoelina prepared Monday for a face-to-face meeting with the man he ousted in 2009 at crunch talks brokered by the regional bloc on a remote Seychelles island. Rajoelina arrived Monday on Desroches island and his rival Marc Ravalomanana was expected Tuesday for talks due to begin the next day and aimed at breaking the deadlock in efforts
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Troops stationed near Madagascar's main airport mutinied on Sunday with gunfire lasting more than four hours. The violence comes ahead of this week's planned meeting between current leader Andry Rajoelina and ousted president Marc Ravalomanana. Gunfire broke out at the Ivato military base which houses the Intervention Forces Regiment (RFI) near Antanananarivo international airport at 6.00 am, abated after four
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With his hat pulled down low over his face, Mamy braved the autumnal winds and rain of the southern hemisphere to proudly point to a range of grey granite mountains in Madagascar. "This is a special place," he says, acting as a guide to the natural park. "We're going to see lemurs, caves, ancestral tombs, chameleons, birds, butterflies and also
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Antsohihy — The Basic Health Centre or Centre de Santé de Base (CSB) II in Anjalajala, near Antsohihy, the capital of Madagascar's northern Sofia Region, is housed in a recently renovated building and its status as a CSB II promises the availability of a trained doctor. But the doctor left for Antananarivo, the capital, in 2002 and has not been
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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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