18 people have been killed and four people are missing this week in Madagascar after a tropical cyclone made landfall on the north end of the island nation; severe flooding has affected villages.

Curiously, little is known about Madagascar’s first human inhabitants, including when and why they first arrived on the island. Estimates range from as much as 10,000 years ago, to just 1,000.

Madagascar, the world's fourth largest island, sits just off Africa's southeast coast, near Mozambique. But despite this closeness, the vast majority of Madagascar's population has situated itself ...

Climate disasters are compounding the poverty in Madagascar, an island nation off the southeast coast of Africa. During the storms earlier this year, at least 214 people were killed, and 571,000 ...

Nearly 90% of flora and fauna is unique to the island nation off the coast of Africa, including 112 species of lemur. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 58°F. Friday, May 16th 2025 ...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) -- A crush of people at a stadium in Madagascar left at least 12 dead and 85 injured as sports fans attended the opening ceremony of the Indian Ocean Island Games ...

Somewhere in the faraway Mozambique Channel, on Madagascar’s tiny, roadless, volcanic “Lemur Island,” a tawny-colored, wet-nosed, white-maned, utterly adorable lemur suddenly pounced from a ...

Madagascar is the fourth-largest island in the world and home to 32 million people, most of whom live on one side. The island is situated off the southeast coast of Africa and consists of numerous ...

Richard: A story took root in the early years of the 20th century that Madagascar was a forested paradise until people arrived a few thousand years ago and began wantonly burning and cutting it down.

The world’s rarest baobab species is Adansonia perrieri, seen here growing in the Ankarana Special Reserve, a protected forest in northern Madagascar.Scientists estimate only around 200 trees ...

A crush of people at a stadium in Madagascar left at least 12 dead and 85 injured as sports fans attended the opening ceremony of the Indian Ocean Island Games, authorities said Saturday.