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Cyclone Batsirai, a category 4 cyclone on the Saffir–Simpson scale, kills at least 10 people and displaces more than 48,000 after making landfall in Madagascar.
2022-02-6

Madagascar receives its first shipment of 50,000 doses of the Covishield vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India.
2021-05-8

Scientists belonging to a German–Malagasy expedition announce the discovery of "Brookesia nana", a lizard found in Madagascar. The male's body spanning only 13.5 mm, is potentially the smallest reptile on Earth.
2021-02-5

Madagascar President Hery Rajaonarimampianina resigns from office in order to contest the November presidential election, as required by the Constitution. Senate president Riko Rakotovao becomes interim President of Madagascar until the January 2019 inauguration of a new president.
2018-09-7

Opposition demonstrations in Antananarivo, Madagascar, turn violent. Prime Minister Olivier Mahafaly Solonandrasana says one died and seventeen were injured but opposition Parliamentarian Hanitra Razafimanantsoa, who supports ex-President Marc Ravalomanana, says two were shot dead and two babies at a nearby hospital killed by tear gas.
2018-04-21

Cyclone Enawo makes landfall in Madagascar as a powerful Category 4 storm, making it the most powerful storm to strike the African nation in 13 years.
2017-03-7

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

The party of former Madagascan President Marc Ravalomanana suspends its role in the unity government after the plane carrying him home from exile was turned away.
2012-01-22

A Taiwanese ship initially believed to have been hijacked off the coast of Madagascar is later found safe.
2010-10-8

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