Madagascar is world famous. Mention the island, the planet's fourth largest, and most people think of its astonishing biodiversity, its lemurs, or - especially - the eponymous animated films.
Few know anything about Madagascar's droughts, its floods, its chronically malnourished population or its defunct health system. Few know that Madagascar is one of the least developed countries in the world, or that its humanitarian situation is one of the most severe.
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