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The death toll from Cyclone Cheneso's landfall in Madagascar has increased to 25, with 21 others still missing.
2023-01-29

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina calls on the military to take "responsibility for threats to national sovereignty and threats to national security" after a plot to assassinate him was foiled last week. Rajoelina called on the new military graduates to uphold democracy.
2021-07-31

The head of the World Food Programme, David Beasley, warns of a "biblical" famine due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and says that the disaster already exists in Ethiopia, Madagascar, South Sudan and Yemen, while also warning that conditions are of "particular concern" in Nigeria and Burkina Faso.
2021-06-30

Madagascar reports its first death from COVID-19; that of a 57-year-old medical worker who suffered from diabetes and high blood pressure.
2020-05-17

At least one person is killed and nearly 40 others are injured in a stampede at a football stadium in Madagascar.
2018-09-9

Since August 1, another round of pneumonic, bubonic, and septicemic plague spreads in Madagascar, killing at least 45 people.
2017-10-7

At least 39 people are killed, including 16 children, in a fire at a residential compound in Mangidy, Madagascar.
2016-07-25

Archaeologists in Madagascar announce the partial discovery of Captain Kidd's treasure. A silver ingot was found in a wreck off the coast of Île Sainte-Marie.
2015-05-7

A new primate, the Lavasoa dwarf lemur, is discovered in Madagascar.
2013-08-2

Customs officers at Kuala Lumpur International Airport discover 400 rare tortoises, more than 40 rare tomato frogs and an unidentified number of chameleons bound with masking tape and stuffed into socks allegedly smuggled from Madagascar in the luggage of two women.
2010-07-18