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Authorities in Madagascar have sacked a local official, arrested several businessmen, and issued fines following the discovery of illegally harvested rosewood logs aboard a ship, reports L'Express de Madagascar. Hery...
Since January 2009 FOKO, the Rising Voices grantee from Madagascar, has been posting a series of interviews with its bloggers celebrating their first anniversary of blogging. Let us meet through these interviews some of the...
Today is the Blog Action Day and this annual event aims to unite the world's bloggers where they write about a single topic in a single day to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion on the subject. Some of the members...
Antananarivo - A group of international environmental organisations and universities have called for a boycott of precious wood from Madagascar, saying criminal gangs have been using months of political turmoil to plunder...
Former Madagascan President Marc Ravalomanana backs down from an internationally backed deal reached on Tuesday by saying that he rejects the proposal on the transitional presidency. "We could not legitimate that a sponsor of a...
A new decree by Madagascar's transitional government may fuel continued destruction of the country's tropical forests and biodiversity, warns a statement issued jointly by a dozen leading scientific and conservation groups. The...
Political instability in Madagascar is having a serious effect on the already fragile and highly endangered ecology of this island nation. This is of profound concern as Madagascar contains many unique species that are already...
ANTANANARIVO, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Foreign investors are showing strong interest in Madagascar's untapped oil reserves, where one field alone holds estimated recoverable reserves of 2.5 billion barrels -- enough to put the...
Antananarivo- Conjoined twin girls born in Madagascar three months ago have died four weeks after surgeons decided it was too risky to separate them, local media reported Friday. Kambana und Sova were born in the remote village...
Armed bands are decimating rainforest reserves in northeastern Madagascar, killing lemurs and intimidating conservation workers, despite widespread condemnation by international environmental groups. Several local sources...
