AMBOVOMBE, MADAGASCAR -- "Kere" is a word that echoes around southern Madagascar. It means hunger, and the people here know it all too well. For the past four years, the lack of food has become a ...

In Madagascar, hunger has already left people eating raw red cactus fruits, wild leaves, even the very locusts that helped decimate crops.The southern part of the country is experiencing its worst ...

People in Madagascar are facing what the UN’s food aid agency has called the world’s first climate-induced famine. Advocate Tsina Endor says the situation is pushing people to find a way to ...

The cactus plant "is the only thing that grows" in southern Madagascar, and the plants "are growing everywhere" in earth "that looks like white silt," she said in a Nov. 23 telephone interview ...

In Madagascar, the island nation off the southeastern coast of Africa, a grim cycle has set in. Rains arrive late and leave early in the African country most exposed to climate change, according ...

T HE PEOPLE of southern Madagascar are in peril. More than 1.1m of them are going hungry, according to the UN.More than 500,000 children under the age of five are at risk of being acutely ...

Climate change is the driving force of a developing food crisis in southern Madagascar, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has warned. The African island has been plagued with back-to-back ...

Southern Madagascar is experiencing its worst drought in four decades thanks to the climate crisis . Jump to content. US Edition Change. UK Edition Asia Edition Edición en Español.

AMBOHITSY HAUT, Madagascar — Etsizakay, 40, stood amid the rugged knolls of his village, Ambohitsy Haut, and pointed right. “That’s where my brother is buried,” he said. “There ahead are ...

Southern Madagascar is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster, the U.N. agency said, and three out of four children in the Amboasary district at the epicenter of the crisis have left school to ...

Reporting from KOBOKARA, Madagascar — Tiny wooden houses are scattered across the harsh gray sand of Kobokara hamlet in southern Madagascar. A woman squats in one of them, looking out her low door.