Located in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa, Madagascar's life is immensely varied, and more than 80 percent of everything alive there exists nowhere else in the world. At more than ...

Eight out of 11 political groups in Madagascar initialled a road map on Wednesday backed by international mediators and is designed to end a two-year political impasse on the Indian Ocean island.

For around 100 years, Ile Sainte-Marie was the off-season home of an estimated 1,000 pirates. A recently discovered map from 1733 refers to it simply as “the island of pirates.” ...