First Person: Water And Electricity ‘Will Save Us From Famine’
An initiative to rapidly develop villages in some of the most drought-prone and poorest rural areas of southern Madagascar could help people to avoid the...
Tag : Madagascar
Climate-Affected Madagascar Adapts To New Reality: A Resident Coordinator Blog
by UN News
People living in Madagascar are learning to adapt to rapidly altering climatic conditions in what is said to be the fourth most climate change-affected change-affected...
Madagascar: Deadly tropical storms cause flooding, landslides
by Arti Ghargi
Two separate tropical weather systems in Madagascar have left at least 34 dead and triggered flooding and landslides, particularly in the capital, Antananarivo, the UN...
1.5 million children lack treatment for severe wasting in Eastern and Southern Africa
by Agency
Across the region, families are dealing with multiple crises, including rising levels of food insecurity, economic deterioration, disease outbreaks, unprecedented cycles of floods and droughts,...
Madagascar Minister Survives The Deadly Helicopter Crash, Swims 12 Hours To Shore
At least 39 people died in that disaster, police chief Zafisambatra Ravoavy said on Tuesday, in an increase from a previous toll after rescue workers...
Madagascar: Severe drought could spur world’s first climate change famine
More than one million people in southern Madagascar are struggling to get enough to eat, due to what could become the first famine caused by climate change, according...
Climate change and hunger in Madagascar: a UN Resident Coordinator blog
In the south of Madagascar, known as the Grand Sud, hundreds of thousands of people are suffering from one of the worst droughts in the...
Humanitarian crisis looms in Madagascar amid drought and pandemic
In southern Madagascar, “famine-like conditions” have doubled the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance compared with last year, to more than 1.3 million....