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A photographer’s journey into Malagasy ancestral rituals

Ritual practices and beliefs continue to shape society in Madagascar, even as the country navigates modernity and environmental challenges. Photographer Rijasolo explores how the ancestors' spirits have endured so far – and whether, as climate change and biodiversity loss threaten the island's unique ecosystem, this connection to the spiritual world…

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The Pope Just Blessed This BMW Motorcycle for a Children’s Charity Auction

The Pope blessed and signed a modified BMW R 18 Transcontinental, which is going up for auction. All proceeds will go to children's aid projects in Madagascar.

RideApart

Maclean brothers hit £1m donation target after 9,000-mile Pacific row

Their charity the Maclean Foundation will use the money to provide clean, safe water for around 40,000 people in Madagascar.

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Madagascar welcomes home skulls of Indigenous warriors taken by French colonial troops 128 years ago

Madagascar has received three skulls of Indigenous warriors returned from France, including one believed to be of a king killed by French troops 128 years ago

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Morocco beats Madagascar to seize third African Nations Championship title

Morocco secured their record third African Nations Championship (CHAN) title on Saturday with a 3-2 final victory over Madagascar in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.

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Birdwatchers flock to Colombia and South Africa- so why are Venezuela and DRC being left behind?

While birdwatching tourism explodes in countries like Colombia and Costa Rica, places like Madagascar and Bolivia are seeing far fewer bird lovers.

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Malagasy families 'turn the dead' with silk and song to honour ancestors

In Madagascar, winter brings with it a unique family gathering. Across the central highlands, communities practise the famadihana – the “turning of the dead”. The ritual, rooted in Austronesian culture and dating back to the 16th century, involves exhuming ancestors, wrapping them in fresh silk shrouds and celebrating them in…

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How to watch Madagascar vs Morocco: live stream Chan final online

We'll explain where you can watch Madagascar vs Morocco live streams in the Chan final, as this year's African Nations Championship reaches its climax.

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Maclean brothers due to arrive in Australia after 139 days of non-stop rowing

The brothers took on the challenge in order to raise funds for clean water projects in Madagascar.

Evening Standard

“Blue-Footed Booby”: 50 Unique Animals You Might Never Have Known Existed

How many of these adorable floofballs had you heard of before now?

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France returns human skulls to Madagascar, 128 years after French massacre

One of three skulls returned to Madagascar is believed to belong to King Toera, who was slain by French colonial forces.

Al Jazeera

France Returns Skull Of Beheaded King To Madagascar

France on Tuesday returned three colonial-era skulls to Madagascar, including one believed to be that of a Malagasy king decapitated by French troops during a 19th-century massacre.

International Business Times

France returns skulls to Madagascar 127 years after colonial massacre

France on Tuesday returned three skulls to Madagascar, including one believed to be a king who was beheaded by French troops following a massacre in August 1897.

Radio France Internationale

Southern African leaders meet in Madagascar to chart path for self-reliance

Southern African leaders are meeting in Madagascar to decide how to make the region more self-reliant and less vulnerable to global economic shocks after years of instability and falling foreign aid.

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Is this Tekken 8 character redesign better than the real thing?

A reimagined Miary Zo looks more like the original concept art.

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Rare fossa cubs born in Paris zoo as wild numbers shrink in Madagascar

Three fossa cubs have been born at a Paris zoo – a rare event for one of Madagascar’s most elusive and endangered mammals. The births offer a small but important boost to conservation efforts for a species that few people have ever seen, and which is disappearing fast in the…

LiveScience

Aye-ayes: The strange nocturnal lemurs with long, creepy fingers

Aye-ayes are remarkable thanks to their extra-long, bony middle fingers, which they use to locate grubs and pick their noses.

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From destruction to restoration: how farmers in Madagascar are being helped to safeguard its rare plant life

By offering local communities legal land ownership and creating green jobs, MBG-Madagascar has found a win-win solution when it comes to protecting rainforests and livelihoods

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I watched a simulated oil spill in the Indian Ocean – here’s how island and coastal countries worked together to avoid disaster

The coils of black hose, drum skimmers designed to collect oil from the ocean’s surface, and orangey-red containment booms all looked out of place on the white sand of Mombasa’s touristy Nyali beach. But on July 9, dozens of emergency responders in red and orange hi-vis gear took over a…

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Madagascar man guilty of rape and murder of child sentenced to surgical castration

For the first time in Madagascar, a court has ruled that surgical castration be carried out on a sex offender, who raped and murdered a six-year-old girl.

The Independent UK

How the climate crisis and aid cuts could devastate global supplies of vanilla

IN FOCUS: Vanilla farmers in Madagascar, a country that supplies up to 80 per cent of the global crop each year, face a difficult future as the climate crisis and aid cuts bite, writes Nick Ferris

The Conversation

Africa’s plants: a database project has recorded 65,000 species – and is still growing

The African Plant Database lists 65,000 species of flowering plants, ferns and conifers found on the African continent and Madagascar. Since 2006, every plant species ever documented in Africa and Madagascar has been included in the massive online database, with about 200 new species added every year. Cyrille Chatelain is…

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Bravo girls! DiGiulian and Ordóñez send first female free climb of Madagascan big wall

26 years after it was established by an all-star women's team, Sasha DiGiulian and Marianna Ordóñez have become the first women to free climb Bravo Les Filles in Madagascar

LiveScience

300-year-old pirate-plundered shipwreck that once held 'eyewatering treasure' discovered off Madagascar

Researchers think a shipwreck off Madagascar was a Portuguese treasure ship captured by pirates in 1721.

Radio France Internationale

Row over Scattered Islands revived as France and Madagascar hold talks

French President Emmanuel Macron and Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina will meet in Paris on Monday to discuss the future of the long-disputed Scattered Islands – a chain of uninhabited islets in the Indian Ocean with big geopolitical, ecological and symbolic value.

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