[UN News] The international community must step up support to Madagascar, where more than one million people in the south are facing severe hunger, the top UN aid official there said on Thursday in a renewed appeal for solidarity and funding.

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam -- The national football team (Taifa Stars) today face Madagascar in the formality qualifier for the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup.

[VOA] Geneva -- The World Food Program reports successive years of extreme weather events have plunged thousands of people in Madagascar into what WFP officials say is the world's first climate-induced famine.

[UN News] "Pockets of famine" have now been reported in Southern Madagascar, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.

[Seychelles News Agency] Maritime security and illegal trafficking in the south of the Seychelles' territory were two subjects discussed by President Wavel Ramkalawan and his counterpart from Madagascar.

[Daily Maverick] Amnesty International, in a new report on southern Madagascar, has showcased how the effects of the climate crisis disproportionately affect less developed countries.

[RFI] A dozen civil society groups have denounced a lack of transparency in Madagascar's lucrative mining sector, which accounts for 30 percent of its exports.

[AI London] One of Madagascar's worst droughts in history is devastating a population where 91% live below the poverty line

[IPS] Johannesburg -- COP26 is almost upon us, and dire warnings abound that it's boom or bust for a greener future. Meanwhile, everybody boasts about what they will do to cool down our planet, but there is a disjuncture between talk and action. Even...

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[UN News] 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 to the World Food Programme (WFP).