Madagascar

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Mission Sagar: India rushes Covid aid to Indian Ocean islands

Ship despatched with medical teams, Covid drugs, says 'first responder' India

11 May 2020 10:21 AM

A man gets his bottle filled with a herbal extract believed to protect from COVID-19, in Antananarivo, Madagascar. (AP)

Madagascar ships anti-virus herbal tea to Guinea-Bissau president

WHO has clarified that the herbal tea's effects had not been tested, and there are no published scientific studies of the potion

03 May 2020 9:49 AM

Indian High Commissioner to Madagascar Abhay Kumar and city's Mayor Lalao Ravalomanana jointly unveils commemorative plaque of Mahatma Gandhi Road on Monday. (Photo: ANI)

Indian ambassador to Madagascar unveils commemorative plaque of Mahatma Gandhi road

The embassy has also put an exhibition of photographs in front of the building capturing the important events from his life and messages.

27 Aug 2019 1:29 PM

India and Madagascar signed a defence cooperation agreement during the high-level visit of the Indian President. (Photo: ANI)

India, Madagascar discuss ways to strengthen bilateral relations

India's ambassador to Madagascar, Abhay Kumar congratulated Ntsay Christian on his reappointment as the Prime Minister.

30 Jul 2019 3:08 PM

The newly-discovered specimen, found in the Taurida Cave on the northern coast of the Black Sea, suggested a bird as giant as the Madagascan elephant bird or New Zealand moa. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

3X larger birds than an Ostrich existed in Taurida Cave

It was previously thought that such gigantism in birds only existed on the islands of Madagascar and New Zealand as well as Australia.

07 Jul 2019 12:15 PM

The business is an unlikely project in a country beset by grinding poverty, but its owners are determined that luxury foods can play a part in improving Madagascar's economy. (Photo: AFP)

Madagascar grows Africa’s first caviar

From a lake high in Madagascar, Africa's own caviar.

04 Jul 2019 9:33 AM

The dramatic forests of limestone needles enveloped us from all sides, deceptively tantalising and petrifying us, in equal measure.

Labyrinth of stone

The Grande Tsingy is not for the faint-hearted. And when you reach the top, you are left in tears at the sheer beauty of madagascar’s adventure trail.

22 Jul 2018 12:54 AM

Clement Joseph Rabenabdreasana, 36, catches crabs in the mangrove near the village of Beanjavilo, western Madagascar, on April 24, 2018. (Photo: AFP)

In Madagascar, fishermen plant mangroves for the future

Mangroves serve not only as fish nurseries, but also filter water and shield coastal areas from the force of waves whipped up by cyclones.

13 May 2018 10:14 AM

The outbreak comes months after hundreds of people were killed by the plague in Madagascar in one of the worse diseases in 50 years. (Representational Image/ Pixabay)

Girl dies of new eye-bleeding fever which is feared to be worse than bubonic plague

Nine-year-old died in central Uganda with symptoms of an eye-bleeding disease which could kill up to 40 per cent of those infected by it.

15 Jan 2018 2:50 PM

Dozens of the endangered creatures need rescuing every year around Watamu, where plastic litter accumulates in Indian Ocean. (Photo: Pixabay)

Sea turtles' sad fate: from restaurant menus to plastic 'soup'

Turtles confuse these items, bobbing and fluttering about in the ocean currents, for jellyfish or other prey.

04 Dec 2017 1:37 PM

The full name of the predatory crocodyliform (nicknamed 'Razana') is Razanandrongobe sakalavae, which means "giant lizard ancestor from Sakalava region." (Image: Giovanni Bindellini)

Jurassic-era crocodile with T-rex teeth discovered in Madagascar

The findings fill the gap in a million-year-long ghost lineage of Notosuchia, which was earlier unknown in the Jurassic period.

05 Jul 2017 12:38 PM

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