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July 26
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Madagascar: Volunteer Health Workers Filling the Void
A legion of over 35,000 community volunteers has been created to fill the health void left in Madagascar's remote rural villages in the wake of the country's 2009 coup... Read more »
July 02
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Madagascar: Thierry Mafisy Miharivonjy Razafindranaivo - Cook, Madagascar
Name: Thierry Mafisy Miharivonjy Razafindranaivo Read more »
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Madagascar: Liliana Lova Rahoaritsalamanirinarisoa - Primary School Teacher, Madagascar
Name: Liliana Lova Rahoaritsalamanirinarisoa Read more »
June 07
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Madagascar: Fears of a Malaria Relapse in Madagascar
Madagascar's recent gains in the battle against malaria are likely to be reversed because funding problems have interrupted prevention activities. Read more »
May 16
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Madagascar: Microcredit Helps Small Businesses Buck the System
Justine Sija, 60, begins her day at 4am, when she buys catch from local fishermen to hawk on the streets of St Augustin Village, in Madagascar's southern Atsimo-Andrefana Region.... Read more »
May 01
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Madagascar: Food Insecurity Opens Door to TB
Health experts fear the interruption of food assistance in Madagascar is increasing incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in Toliara, the capital city of Madagascar's southern... Read more »
April 08
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Madagascar: Consecutive Catastrophes Hit Farmers
Farmers in Madagascar's southwestern province of Tulear have been hit hard, first by floods and then by locusts, threatening food security in a region already among the poorest in... Read more »
March 22
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Madagascar: Millennium Village Goes It Alone
A Millennium Village in Madagascar is learning to stand on its own as five years of support from the UN Development Programme (UNDP) come to an end this month. Read more »
February 25
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Madagascar: Tropical Cyclone Haruna Hits South-West Coast
National disaster authorities and aid agencies are struggling to reach remote areas of Madagascar's southwestern coast where thousands of people are thought to have been made... Read more »
February 13
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Madagascar: Locust Invasion Threatens Underfunded Madagascar
After years of underfunding its locust management programme, Madagascar is threatened by a major swarm that could infest most of the island country. Read more »
January 22
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Madagascar: Navigating Roll-Out of Pneumonia Vaccines
Even after days on an antibiotic regime, three-month-old Jean Marie Anselme struggles to breathe and eat at the Fondation Médical d'Ampasimanjeva, a hospital in... Read more »
January 15
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Madagascar: Food-for-Work Scheme Helps Malagasy Forests and People
The dry, spiny forests of southern Madagascar comprise one of the most unique ecosystems in the world, but they are becoming increasingly endangered as residents of the arid,... Read more »
December 28, 2012
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Madagascar: Funding Gap Threatens School Lunches
The provision of school lunches to 215,000 children in 1,200 primary schools in southern Madagascar could be suspended by the end of January 2013 if the World Food Programme (WFP)... Read more »
December 21, 2012
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Madagascar: Relief for Fistula Sufferers
It took three days for Nisehotsara, a farmer's wife from Betraka, a village on Madagascar's east coast, to deliver her 10th child. After the difficult birth, she woke up to find... Read more »
December 12, 2012
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Madagascar: Midwives Saving Mothers
Madagascar's traditional midwives, or 'matronnes', are often thought to undermine safe childbirth practices, delivering babies in unsanitary environments and without provisions to... Read more »
December 06, 2012
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Madagascar: Surviving Tough Times - A Trainee Teacher
Liliana Lova Rahoaritsalamanirinarisoa, 25, a single mother from the village of Ambohimanga Rova, about 24km east of Madagascar's capital Antananarivo, is confident about the... Read more »
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Madagascar: Surviving Tough Times - A Cook
Thierry Mafisy Miharivonjy Razafindranaivo, 26, is one of three cooks in a local fast food restaurant in Antananarivo, Madagascar's capital. Read more »
November 23, 2012
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Madagascar: Cyclone Preparations Threatened
A US$6.1 million funding shortfall is jeopardizing the World Food Programme's (WFP) practice of pre-positioning relief supplies in many areas vulnerable to cyclones. The practice... Read more »
November 21, 2012
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Madagascar: Prisoners Sentenced to Malnutrition
Former gang member Robert, 62, shares a cell with 145 other inmates in Antanimora Prison in Madagascar's capital, Antananarivo. He receives one meal a day of dried cassava. Read more »
November 06, 2012
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Madagascar: Domestic Violence Rises As Incomes Fall
Incomes have slipped to their lowest level in a decade since Madagascar's 2009 coup d'etat, and, in parallel, domestic violence has sharply risen. Read more »
October 19, 2012
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Madagascar: Possible Palm Extinction Threatens Livelihoods
Eighty-three percent of Madagascar's palm species - which are a vital source of both food and building materials - are threatened by extinction, according to the International... Read more »
September 28, 2012
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Madagascar: Bandits Thrive in Rural South
In 2010, scores of bandits attacked Bevilany, a charcoal-producing settlement in Madagascar's southern Anosy Region. By the time the fight was over, 11 outlaws and one 'zamasi' - a... Read more »
September 24, 2012
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Madagascar: The Hunt for Remenabila [opinion]
Yvan Razafimandimby, 22, was working at the family store in the Taolagnaro neighbourhood of Anbounato, Madagascar, when two soldiers arrived to inform him that his 50-year-old... Read more »
September 21, 2012
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Madagascar: Children With Disabilities Get a Second Chance at School [opinion]
It was only when her daughter, then five years old, was playing near railway tracks in Madagascar's capital, Antananarivo, and failed to hear the whistle of an oncoming train that... Read more »
September 19, 2012
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Madagascar: Combating Child Malnutrition in Madagascar [press release]
About half of Madagascar's children under the age of five are stunted - the irreversible effect of undernourishment during the first 1,000 days of life. Children who suffer from... Read more »
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