SAUK RAPIDS — Brianna Backes went to Madagascar to get some on-the-ground experience working in public health. The Cathedral High School graduate had been inspired to work in public health in Africa ...

The land of freaky animals and amazing biodiversity, Madagascar was also one of the last places to be settled by humans. And new research suggests that didn't happen until about 1,200 years ago. The ...

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* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. ANTALAHA, 12 October 2011 (IRIN) - Daniel Soadava and Samoela Razafindramboho are known as "the ...

The region of East Africa comprises countries such as Kenya, Somalia, Eritrea, Mauritius, Djibouti, Réunion, Mayotte, Seychelles, South Sudan, and Madagascar. Women’s issues remain a serious concern ...

"Get rid of the girl who stinks," they said about Sana Rodiny who for three years had to endure unrelenting abuse after developing a fistula. Now at 18 she hopes the people of her small village in ...

“All I wanted was to go home,” recalls a Malagasy woman here in the capital of the island nation of Madagascar, which lies off southeastern Africa. Trafficking in vulnerable women, especially to go ...

ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Police said on Wednesday they had found the remains of a British woman who fell 1,200 meters (4,000 feet) from a light aircraft in the remote north of Madagascar last month.

Six months after their journey from Madagascar to the Barefoot College in Tilonia, India, Kingeline, Hanitra, Yollande and Remeza finished their training. Known as the solar grandmas of Ambakivao, ...

Raholimalala Avotiana is rocking her newborn baby boy to sleep. It’s her fourth day at the Maternity Hospital of Befelatanana in Antananarivo, Madagascar’s capital. “I am going to be discharged today, ...

A 20-year-old Madagascar woman has been accused of abandoning her newborn baby in an airplane lavatory after allegedly giving birth mid-flight. According to the BBC, the incident took place on New ...