Madagascar News

Southern African leaders on Saturday told Zimbabwe to ask its courts to extend a July 31 deadline to hold elections, amid high tension between President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai over the timing of the vote.

The wife of deposed Madagascar leader Marc Ravalomanana deflected international demands to pull out of a presidential election in August, telling Reuters she will be her own woman if she wins while her husband will run the family business.

"Madagascar farming officials say a deadly and incurable crop disease has spread widely in the island's main vanilla-producing area.

Madagascar is a country with enormous potential. When it was not in crisis, Madagascar grew at an average 5 percent a year.

France will not recognize the results of proposed presidential elections in Madagascar until three candidates, including the interim president, withdraw from the process, foreign ministry spokesman Philippe Lalliot said on Monday.

The United States on Friday called on Madagascar to restore democratic rule through free and fair elections, after the African nation's government said it was postponing a presidential vote by a month to August 23. "We call on the country's political leaders to work toward free, fair, and internationally recognized elections that restore democratic ... (more)

An old man walks along the road, head bent against the locust plague that glitters all around him.

Madagascar's recent gains in the battle against malaria are likely to be reversed because funding problems have interrupted prevention activities.

Madagascar postponed a presidential election, the government said on Thursday, further delaying a vote that the president promised to hold shortly after seizing power in 2009.

Egypt will demand Ethiopia stop building a dam on one of the main tributaries of the Nile, a senior government aid says.

Outside of zoos and research centers, lemurs are found only in Madagascar; there are dozens of species of different colors, behaviors and sizes.

UAFL's recently launched IMMA service, operated jointly with Evergreen Line , connects Mauritius, Madagascar, South Africa and Mozambique with India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka on a fortnightly basis.

Wanted Ugandan General David Sejusa who sparked a debate on presidential succession says he is fighting for freedom from oppression by state.

Presidential candidates for Madagascar's July 24, 2013 poll now serving in government had until 4 pm local time yesterday, May 27, 2013 to step down, Radio France Internationale, RFI reported.

Antananarivo based operator Blueline is replacing their existing CAS and SMS and becomes the first African DTT operator to use the Swedish security and business system CryptoGuard.

Uncertainty surrounds Madagascar's upcoming Presidential election, as current President Andry Rajoelina continues to resist international pressure to withdraw from the July 24 poll.

Madagascar's president Andry Rajoelina , under international pressure not to seek re-election in July, has set out the terms under which he would withdraw from the race, but warned that the specter of civil war loomed over the Indian Ocean island.

TGS is hosting its 2013 Capital Markets Day today in London, United Kingdom. The prepared program begins at 14:00 BST and will include presentations from the TGS Executive Management team.

To the Editor: Rift Valley fever virus is a mosquito-borne zoonotic virus in the family Bunyaviridae , genus Phlebovirus , which affects mainly domestic ruminants and humans on continental Africa, Madagascar, and the Arabian Peninsula .

Madagascar's security forces have summoned the island's rival political leaders to an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss their controversial candidacies for upcoming presidential polls.