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Madagascar's economy is showing signs of recovery, although spending in key sectors like health and education remain under pressure.

• 12 ноября 2014, 10:21

Madagascar's Prime Minister Roger Kolo has vowed to stamp out corruption after revealing that 40 percent of his country's budget is lost to graft.

• 05 июля 2014, 13:02

After months of post-election deadlock Madagascar's president named a new prime minister Friday, tapping the relatively unknown doctor Roger Kolo for the post.

• 13 апреля 2014, 10:44

Madagascans voted Friday for a new president and parliament in run-off elections aimed at pulling the island out of the political and economic doldrums and restoring democracy.

• 20 декабря 2013, 11:11

Madagascar began announcing results in dribs and drabs Saturday after its first post-coup presidential elections, with only 52 polling stations out of 20,001 reported in the morning.

• 26 октября 2013, 19:03

Poverty-wracked Madagascar began voting Friday in long-delayed presidential elections meant to restore democracy and pull the country out of the crisis it plunged into after a 2009 coup.

• 26 октября 2013, 10:03

Some of the tiniest frogs on Earth have no middle ears or eardrums but can hear by using their mouths.

• 03 сентября 2013, 18:35

Madagascar leader Andry Rajoelina has vowed to withdraw his controversial candidacy for upcoming presidential polls if his rivals do the same, as mediators scramble to save a deal aimed at ending a four-year political deadlock.

• 25 мая 2013, 15:42

Scientists Tuesday made a rare live addition to the order of primates, unveiling two new species of mouse lemur -- tiny, big-eyed animals that inhabit the forests of Madagascar.

• 26 марта 2013, 16:49

With small, silent steps, 10-year-old Borikely carefully picks her way through the tall grass of a Madagascar field in search of her dinner. She's hunting for grasshoppers, which she'll catch with a stick.

• 20 марта 2013, 10:51

Kazakhstan Foreign Minister Yerlan Idrissov met with his colleague from Madagascar Pierrot Jocelyn Rajaonarivelo in Astana.

• 15 ноября 2012, 11:39