Madagascar’s Parliament has passed a law allowing for the chemical and in some cases surgical castration of those found guilty of the rape of a minor.

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina is on course for reelection in a vote boycotted by most opposition candidates.

Madagascar’s incumbent President Andry Rajoelina has taken a commanding lead in the island nation’s presidential election, which is being boycotted by the majority of candidates and is marked by low turnout.

Madagascar police have imposed a night-time curfew in the capital after the torching of some polling stations ahead of a presidential election set for Thursday.

A crush of people at a stadium in Madagascar has left at least 12 dead and 85 injured as sports fans attended the opening ceremony of the Indian Ocean Island Games.

President Joe Biden says he will visit sub-Saharan Africa next year, announcing the trip as he wrapped up a U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington.

Officials in Madagascar say that Cyclone Batsirai has caused the deaths of 20 people and made more than 55,000 others homeless after slamming into the island’s eastern coast.

Officials in Madagascar say that heavy rains have flooded parts of the capital city, Antananarivo, killing 10 people and making more than 12,000 homeless.

A court in Madagascar has convicted two French citizens of having plotted a failed coup against President Andry Rajoelina and sentenced them to 10 years and 20 years of forced labor.

Children shelter from the sun in Ankilimarovahatsy, Madagascar, a village in the far south of the island where most children are acutely malnourished, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. “We, the parents, have nothing to feed our children aside from tamarind and the cactus that we find around us,” she said. Mothers are now trying to feed their children with unripe mangoes, and with tamarind mixed with clay. One mother, Toharano, said four of her 14 children died in June and July. “The children wake in the night, hungry.”The names of the dead are kept in a notebook held by the village leader, Refanampy.

Bernard Gagnon/Wikimedia(CNN) - A stampede at a stadium during Madagascar's independence day celebrations killed 16 people and left 101 people injured, an official told CNN. The incident happened at the entrance of the stadium as the crowd jostled to get through the gate at the Mahamasina stadium in the capital Antananarivo. The president wished the wounded a speedy recovery and announced his government would foot the hospital bill for those injured. "My wife and I are upset by the tragic jostling at the entrance to the #Mahamasina stadium. Nearly 40 soccer fans were injured and one person was crushed to death last September as they tried to gain entrance to the same stadium.