NGO volunteers are working in the Analamanga region in Madagascar informing residents of how best to guard against the plague outbreak sweeping the country

The threat of cholera is like a ticking bomb for the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have flooded into Bangladesh in recent weeks the Red Cross chief warned

A huge clean up operation is underway at the biggest market in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo as a plague outbreak sweeps the country

In Madagascar traditional body turning ceremonies in which families rewrap the remains of dead relatives and dance with the corpses are a sacred ritual

Madagascar's president Hery Rajaonarimampianina delivers his new year’s speech saying 2018 will be a decisive year for the country

Most inhabitants of Madagascar thought the plague was a footnote of medical history until the disease dramatically returned last year slaying more than 200 people

Madagascar's former president Marc Ravalomanana speaks to journalists during a press conference at his home in Antananarivo ahead of this year's presidential election

Marc Ravalomanana the former president of Madagascar who was overthrown and forced into exile in 2009 attends a rally with his TIM party (Tiako I Madagasikara, I Love Madagascar) and Malagasy diaspora in Savigny le Temple a suburb of Paris

With protests over illegal immigration gripping the French island of Mayotte between Madagascar and the southeast African mainland police continued to intercept illegal migrants on Friday

In most countries health ministers are seen as bureaucrats more interested in paperwork than medical miracles

Madagascar's president announces that a new government has been appointed following a court ruling which called for a consensus administration to resolve a political crisis sparked by electoral reform

Voters began casting their ballots across the Indian Ocean island nation of Madagascar on Wednesday to select a new president in a runoff election that pits two former leaders against each other.

The counting of ballots has started in Madagascar's runoff presidential election, after polls closed to end the generally peaceful voting on Wednesday.

Madagascar presidential candidate Andry Rajoelina addressed supporters in the capital Antananarivo on Monday at a rally on the last day of campaigning in the presidential run-off.

Voters have begun casting their ballots across the Indian Ocean island nation of Madagascar on Wednesday to select a new president in a runoff election that pits two former leaders against each other.

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Madagascar residents expressed mixed opinions a day after the country held a runoff presidential election.

The counting of ballots has started in Madagascar's runoff presidential election, after the polls closed to end the generally peaceful voting Wednesday.

Voters began casting their ballots across the Indian Ocean island nation of Madagascar Wednesday to select a new president in a runoff election that pits two former leaders against each other.

The Indian Ocean island nation of Madagascar goes to the polls on Wednesday for a runoff presidential election that features two former heads of state who have a prickly past.

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Relatives of passengers and crew who were on the still-missing flight MH370 on Friday handed over what they believe could be more pieces of the plane's debris to Malaysian officials.

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed his Madagascar counterpart Andry Rajoelina in Paris on Wednesday.