[RFI] Malagasy President Andry Rajoelina declared a national day of mourning Thursday to commemorate 85 people killed in a shipwreck off the country's coast on Monday.

[DW] The Malagasy secretary of state for police was traveling to the site of a shipwreck along with three police officers. The cause of the crash is not yet clear, said police.

[RFI] A Madagascar court has convicted six people, including two French citizens, to up to 20 years in prison for plotting to assassinate President Andry Rajoelina this summer.

[RFI] A new species of frog with bright red eyes and a quiet groaning call has been discovered in eastern Madagascar - but is already endangered because the forest patches where it lives are shrinking.

[World Bank] Washington -- Amid a severe food security crisis in the south of Madagascar, the World Bank is providing $100 million in additional financing to the Support for Resilient Livelihoods in the South of Madagascar (Mionjo) Project.

[RFI] The trial of 21 people accused of planning a coup d'etat, including two French men and their wives, opens today in Madagascar.

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Durban -- Widespread poverty, lack of irrigation, deforestation and COVID-19 restrictions are having a bigger effect than global warming, scientists say