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Madagascar Will Not Participate At the African Union Commission Chairmanship Election
Madagascar will not participate at the African Union (AU) Commission’s chairmanship election scheduled to be held on Monday at the end of the two day summit in Addis Ababa. How People Arrived Here: African Union Commission elections, AU chairmanship...
Leprosy Making a Comeback in Madagascar
Mamysoa realized she had a problem after she stepped too close to the fire. “I burned my foot quite badly, but it hardly hurt at all,” she recalled. The 20-year-old housekeeper recently became one of five new cases of leprosy that Abdoul Zamandrahengo...
Netflix Members To Enjoy Instantly Watching High-Quality Animated Content From DreamWorks Animation
Netflix, Inc. and DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. have announced a new multi-year licensing agreement that will make Netflix the exclusive subscription television service for first-run feature films and select television specials from DreamWorks Animation,...
Elections Could be Held in Crisis-hit Madagascar in the Next 12 Months
Elections could be held in crisis-hit Madagascar in the next 12 months following recent regional-led talks in the capital Antananarivo, South African International Relations and Cooperation Deputy Minister Marius Fransman told reporters in Cape Town on...
Dr. Blowhole Returns in Nickelodeon’s Brand-new Penguins of Madagascar Special, ‘Blowhole Strikes Back’
Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) returns as the title characters’ sinister nemesis, Dr. Blowhole, in Nickelodeon’s brand-new Penguins of Madagascar special, “Blowhole Strikes Back,” premiering Friday, Sept. 9, at 8:00...
Madagascar School Girls Turn to Sex to Earn School Fees
The ambition of 16-year-old Madagascan schoolgirl Nadine (name changed) is to open a clothes boutique after completing a college course in textile design, but in the meantime, along with eight of her friends, she has turned to sex work to pay her tuition...
Poverty And Malnutrition on Madagascar’s Sisal Plantations
At the Centre for Treatment of Acute Malnutrition with Complications (CRENI) in the town of Amboasary Sud in the Anosy region of southeastern Madagascar, Samina Tahiaritsoa, 20, cradles her son, Lambo, 3, who still weighs less than six kilograms after...
New Species Discovered Weekly in Madagascar But Many Already Endangered
Scientists in Madagascar discovered more than 615 species, including 41 mammals between 1999 and 2010 but many of the exciting and colorful creatures are already endangered.
