The FINANCIAL — Weathering two political crises, disruptions in access to markets for textiles and manufacturing exports, severe climatic shocks, and global food price spikes, Madagascar made very ...

WWF supports communities in Madagascar with sustainable farming to protect forests and reduce threats to endangered lemurs.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a recession in 2020 comparable to that of the 2009 political crisis and the reversal of close to a decade of progress in poverty reduction COVID-19 ...

Girls growing up in Madagascar face a triple threat: poverty, violence and a lack of access to quality education. More than 90 percent of the Malagasy population lives on less than $2 a day, and many ...

Visiting a vast stone quarry worked by some of the poorest people in Madagascar, one of the poorest countries in the world, Pope Francis prayed Sept. 8 that laborers would experience consolation and ...

Pope Francis and Father Pedro Opeka, founder of the Akamasoa Community of Good Friends, attend a meeting with members of the community in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Sept. 8, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul ...

Vincentian Father Pedro Opeka greets children who are housed in his Akamasoa "Community of Good Friends" in Madagascar Aug. 27, 2019. (CNS photo/Baz Ratner, Reuters) During his sojourn in Madagascar ...

Dec 2 (Reuters) - Poverty, poor infrastructure and natural weather variability are bigger contributors to Madagascar's food crisis than climate change, according to a study released on Thursday by ...

While Madagascar is barely recovering from the impacts of COVID-19, the latest economic update warns of new threats are weighing on the country's economic outlook The report notes that Madagascar ...

75% of Malagasy people live on less than two dollars a day. The pandemic triggered a deep recession in the country, with the World Bank predicting this has tipped 100 million people into extreme ...

To see why thousands have taken to the streets of Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, in recent days, look up from the demonstrations to the cable car that dangles above the city. The line, which ...