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Children sit by a dug out water hole in a dry river bed in the remote village of Fenoarivo, Madagascar

Climate change is driving the worst drought Madagascar has seen in four decades

Food

Shelley Thakral, communications and advocacy specialist with the World Food Program, joined The World’s host Marco Werman from Johannesburg, South Africa, to discuss the dire situation.

Palamagamba Kabudi, Tanzania's Foreign Minister receives a package from his Madagascar counterpart Tehindrazanarivelo Djacoba of the COVID Organics

Madagascar defends coronavirus herbal remedy 

Health & Medicine
A man with glistening black hair wearing sunglasses waves to the crowd.

Madagascar presidential elections marred by accusations of fraud

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In Madagascar, a deadly battle over the country’s vanilla crop

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Arts, Culture & Media
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The Abuzz project hopes to help curb mosquito-borne illnesses by using cell phones to track mosquito outbreaks around the world.

Tracking some of the world’s biggest killers, via cellphone

Health

A new project hopes to use a technology in just about everyone’s pocket to help track mosquitoes that can cause some of the deadliest diseases in the world.

An employee prepares a scoop of ice cream at the Miko Carte d'Or, part of the Unilever group, factory in Saint-Dizier, France, May 4, 2016.

A cyclone in Madagascar could mean you’ll pay more for ice cream this summer

Economics

Back in March, a Category 4 cyclone hit the island of Madagascar. At least 81 people were killed and 6,000 others were displaced. The cyclone also washed away one of the island’s main sources of income: vanilla.

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The Nazi plan to relocate Jews to Madagascar, one of World War II’s forgotten ‘what ifs’

Conflict

Germany’s Madagascar Plan is one of the lesser-known ‘what ifs’ of World War II history.

Modern salegy artist Aly Mourad performs at Jao's Pub in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Mourad blends traditional salegy with a more upbeat style.

Go inside salegy, the music that dominates Madagascar

Music

In the days after World War II, musicians in the northern villages of the huge island nation of Madagascar started fusing traditional folk songs with modern styles. The result was a style called salegy, and it’s still everywhere in Madagascar, now evolving for yet another new age.

A Madagascar Biodiversity Project poster illustrates the symbiotic relationship between the black and white ruffed lemur and the forests they live in, centered on food and poop. The project aims to use lemur poop to help restore forest habitat for the ben

Lemur poop might save Madagascar’s forests — and economy

Environment

A reforestation project in southern Madagascar is looking to rebuild the region’s forests, lemur populations and even the economy. And it turns out the secret ingredient for regenerating the once-abundant landscape is lemur poop.

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