Madagascar News

BarCamp Madagascar will be the first BarCamp event in Madagascar. The full-day event is free of charge for all participants and will include presentations, lightning talks, and meetups on various topics of ...

ANTANANARIVO, 2 October 2008 - The price of rice, the staple food of Madagascar's 19 million people, has stabilised, but the country's southern regions, where remote communities are vulnerable to chronic food ...

Losing track of time in Madagascar From Deidre McKee of Austin. Madagascar isn't for everyone.

Houston & Antananarivo - Madagascar Oil announced it has closed on the farmout of a 60 percent interest and operatorship in the license for the vast Bemolanga oil sands accumulation to French supermajor TOTAL.

Nairobi - Elisabeth's 13 children were born by candlelight. Her daughter, who has just become a mother for the first time, was more "fortunate". Now, in Antasahadinta hospital in rural Madagascar, the use of ...

By Henry Mukasa and Hellen Mukiibi PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni is in New York to attend the 63rd UN General Assembly.

When you're on the lookout for lemurs - the unusually cute and endangered group of primates found only on the African island of Madagascar - it helps to have good eyes , sharp ears and a keen nose .

An International Monetary Fund mission, led by George Tsibouris, visited Antananarivo during September 11-24, 2008, to hold discussions for the fifth review under the IMF's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility ...

In fact, if you search Google for 'Madagascar' the second and third search returns have nothing to do with the country at all, but rather the Disney movie.

Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on 17 July 2008 appointed Father Honore Boudi, of the Archdiocese of Antsiranana, as Rector of the Interdiocesan Theological ...

The current global food, economic and security crises should not be used by affluent countries as a rationale for cutting back on pledges of increased aid to needy States, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, ...

Between 5 and 7 p.m. Antananarivo is abuzz with pedestrian activity. Streets become streams of unrushed walkers lined with banks of candle-lit informal economy. Anything you could possibly want to buy is all of a sudden right by your side, but only between 5 and 7 p.m. Day turns to dusk turns to night. The retreating sunlight plays games with angular buildings, tired eyes, and flashing white teeth..

Truly going back to basics - ' can I cope? SUSAN Dalgety and her husband have given up their jobs, let their heavily mortgaged house and headed off to travel the world in a camper van.

The Malagasy blogosphere is unanimous in saluting the passing of Rado, the renowned Malagasy poet.

Wednesday, 17 September 2008, 3:18 pm Press Release: United Nations Poorly planned economic development is at the root of the more than 40 per cent plunge in migratory waterbird populations travelling across ...

The suspension of senior Northern Cape nature conservation officials linked to the Kamfers Dam flamingo project must be resolved immediately, the African Christian Democratic Party said on Tuesday.

YAHOO! Story published at magicvalley.com on Sunday, September 14, 2008 Last modified on Sunday, September 14, 2008 12:20 AM MDT MEAGAN THOMPSON/Times-News Jake Migler of Twin Falls poses on his living room ...

The D.C. Shorts Film Festival, which MovieMaker Magazine recently called "one of the nation's leading short film festivals," has become a premier venue for local and national filmmakers alike.

By now I am a connoisseur of cultural faux pas. I have embarrassed myself in the cobblestone streets of Norrkoping, Sweden, and the sandy streets of Dakar, Senegal.

ANTANANARIVO, Sept. 9 -- Five million of people, or 31 percent of Madagascans between 11 and 15 years, are illiterates in rural areas of Madagascar in 2008, Minister of National Education Stangeline ...