Madagascar News

Being an exhausted mother of 10 children by your early thirties is not unusual in rural Madagascar, but a movement is now underway to try and provide women with a contraceptive choice.

But what neither article mentions is the amazing background story of a determined 18-year-old blogger named Diana Chamia who first raised awareness about Kamba’s condition with her blog post “Help Me Help Them“. .

The world's fourth biggest island lies off the coast of Mozambique and has a culture and natural history that are unique, the result of the isolation it has experienced since it broke away from the continent ...

Immediately after their discovery, the bodies were sent to a hospital in Maroantsetra.

In Madagascar, where community resilience and livelihoods are continuously eroded by cyclones, floods and drought, the gap between emergency humanitarian action and development assistance can become too wide to ...

Mialy , a blogger in Antananarivo, describes the plight of young married girls in rural areas who are subject to health and social concerns stemming from early pregnancy .

ANTANANARIVO, Jul 17 - Safe drinking water is a scarce resource in Madagascar. Considerable financial investment is needed to improve sanitation and water treatment and distribution for the population of this ...

The search for the seven remaining Taiwanese businessmen missing off the coast of Madagascar since last Friday will continue until the family and the Malagasy government call it off, the Ministry of Foreign ...

THE bodies of a Taiwan businessman and an overseas Chinese were found on a beach in Madagascar yesterday after their fishing boat sank three days earlier, Xinhuanet.com reported today.

To protest the expropriation of lands that they believe was theirs for decades, farmers fought with police force that came to evict them from the disputed land.

There has been no trace of the nine Chinese, including 8 businessmen from Taiwan and another one from the mainland, who have been missing off Madagascar's northeastern island of Sainte Marie since last ...

To protest the expropriation of lands that they believe was theirs for decades, farmers fought with police force that came to evict them from the disputed land.

A few memorable analogies were made during the summit and I just thought of one that I failed to present during the summit, so I will give it to you here.

Madagascar is a country better known for its cartoon portrayal than for its media representation, yet its blogosphere is actively voicing its opinions of the upcoming U.S. elections.

I've spent the last two days as the MC of the Global Voices meetings in Budapest .

It has been a fascinating 7 days in Budapest meeting more than a hundred bloggers and more activists, Gurus, techies and journalists from all over the world.

The Global Voices Citizen Media summit in Budapest ended successfully. The Rising Voices project was in the spotlight all through the summit. Mialy Andriamananjara is one of the coordinators of the remarkable Global Voices Malagasy, and a co-founder of FOKO Madagascar. The project is encouraging high school, college and journalism students to explore citizen media. This is a challenge, given both digital divide issues (the cost of connectivity, frequent electrical blackouts) and perception issues.

Former Gor Mahia chairman Zack Mbori took an unprecedented action 25 years ago by sacking the club's entire squad and withdrawing them from the African Club Cup championship on disciplinary grounds.

If Lawrence Lessig can do it, so can you. Lessig is a who in "Who's Who," a scholar who's crusaded against overprotective copyrights, promoted Net neutrality and agitated for good government.

Exotic species and Homo sapiens have a hard time existing side by side. Wherever you find Man, you are also likely to find that rare birds, mammals, fish and flowers have been driven to the brink of extinction, ...