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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like many people in Madagascar, Robustin doesn't have a surname. He was one of the first Vezo born on the Barren Isles and is the vice president of the fishermen's collective on the archipelago.

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 ...

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

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.