Full Coverage: Madagascar

09.10.2007 The president's political party won a landslide victory in last week's elections in Madagascar, but a Malagasy blogger reports concerns about low turnout and inadequate supervision of the counting process.

07.05.2007 Suomalaiset koululaiset ja opiskelijat äänestivät lukuvuoden 2008-2009 Taksvärkki-keräyksen kohteeksi hankkeen, jolla tuetaan kouluja käymättömien ja koulun keskeyttäneiden lasten ja nuorten luku- ja kirjoitustaidon opetusta Madagaskarilla.

16.04.2007 Madagaskarin saarivaltioon on iskenyt joulukuun jälkeen jo kuusi trooppista hirmumyrskyä. Myrskyjen seurauksista kärsii jopa 450 000 ihmistä, kun riisipellot ovat peittyneet veteen ja lähes 10 000 lapsen koulunkäynti estynyt. Hankalat olosuhteet vaikeuttavat avustusjärjestöjen työtä.

10.04.2007 Communities in Madagascar, Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zambia are struggling to recover from a season of unusually heavy rains, cyclones, severe flooding, and extreme drought.

04.04.2007 A World Bank-sponsored infrastructure program may soon bring low-cost, high speed connectivity to East and Southern Africa, the only world region not connected to global broadband.

03.01.2007 A compound derived from tree bark has potential as a preventative treatment for malaria, according to a study published in PLoS Medicine.

13.12.2006 Vielä vahvistamattomien vaalitulosten valossa näyttää siltä, että Madagaskarin vallassa oleva presidentti Marc Ravalomanana tulee valituksi uudelle kaudelle. Tämä entinen liikemies astui valtaan neljä vuotta sitten, ja häntä pidetään liberaalina uudistajana. Vaalit pidettiin kolmas joulukuuta. Ulkopuolisten arvion mukaan ne olivat vapaat ja reilut.

13.12.2006 Provisional results are showing re-election for Madagascar's president, a former businessman who took power four years ago and has largely been considered a liberal reformer.

13.09.2006 Unicef auttaa Madagaskarin lapsia malarian välttämisessä. Malariaa esiintyy kaikkialla Madagaskarilla. Tauti on alle viisivuotiaiden suurin yksittäinen kuolinsyy. Ongelman ratkaisussa on kuitenkin kyse paljon muustakin kuin hyttysverkoista. Unicefin työn lähtökohtana on lähestyä lasten ongelmia kokonaisuutena ja ratkaista ne pysyvästi.

28.02.2006 Intian valtameressä sijaitseva Mauritiuksen saarivaltio on löytänyt kosolti uutta viljelymaata – 800 kilometrin päässä sijaitsevasta ja 300 kertaa suuremmasta Madagaskarista. Mauritius tuottaa jonkin verran sokeria, hedelmiä ja vihanneksia, mutta se joutuu tuomaan valtaosan ruoastaan ulkomailta.

01.02.2006 The marriage of public and private efforts has helped the highly impoverished Anosy Region of Madagascar--where more than 80% of the population live below the national poverty line--to forge a sustainable development plan. Anosy has benefited from a combination of community participation, financial support from USAID, and technical assistance from a multinational company.

25.01.2006 A thorough assessment of nutritional levels in Madagascar's drought-stricken southeast has revealed that not as many people as previously thought are suffering from life-threatening malnutrition, according to U.N. agencies, but the situation is still quite "fragile" and the front-line responders remain short on funds.

15.12.2005 Earlier this year a debt cancellation package was agreed for 18 of the world's most impoverished countries, but now the IMF has announced a final test must be passed by six of them to qualify for the January write-off. Africa Action wants you to join them this week in telling the IMF that more delays cost more lives!

18.11.2005 Malnutrition rates have reached an almost unbelievable 50% in the southeastern region of Madagascar. Over 14,000 children are affected and 400 are likely to die without immediate intervention in the next few weeks. Flooding, high transportation costs, geographic isolation, and the falling price of vanilla are largely to blame.

25.10.2005 New mothers in Madagascar and Ghana have begun to hear about the importance of breastfeeding from many different sources--including their favorite singer--and the results are already beginning to show.

06.10.2005 Denovive, gragjanite na Sveti Nikole bea iznenadeni so secata na dvaesetina topoli vo Gradskiot park. Akcijata e del od obemnite raboti na preureduvanje na centralnoto gradsko podracje, koi vklucuvaat i reguliranje na koritoto na Gorobinska reka, kako i rekonstrukcija na gradskiot plostad.

29.12.2004 Tre radio private di Toamasina, città portuale della costa est dell’isola di Madagascar, sono state chiuse dal governo dopo aver ospitato sulle loro onde l’intervento di alcune personalità dell’opposizione. Radio Ny Antsika (RNA), Sky FM e Radio Feon'i Toamasina (RFT) non emettono più dal 10 dicembre scorso e i loro responsabili sono stati convocati dalla gendarmeria locale per essere interrogati. Intanto in Etiopia è stata riabilitata l'Associazione dei giornalisti etiopi dopo 13 mesi di messa al bando.

17.11.2004 Focusing on Madagascar, this soon-to-be-released documentary examines what one innovative local organization is doing to help save the forest by promoting family planning.

15.09.2004 Radio Mampita is a membership based community radio owned and operated by Malagasy farmers. Created in 1997, it plays a key role in strengthening communications between different segments of society.

10.03.2004 Officials in Madagascar have had no word of a ferry carrying 113 passengers and crew since a cyclone ripped across the Indian Ocean island, killing at least 11 and leaving tens of thousands homeless. The ferry reached the Mahajanga port at 5pm on Sunday but was not allowed to dock because customs officers were not on duty.