The FINANCIAL — Weathering two political crises, disruptions in access to markets for textiles and manufacturing exports, severe climatic shocks, and global food price spikes, Madagascar made very ...

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a recession in 2020 comparable to that of the 2009 political crisis and the reversal of close to a decade of progress in poverty reduction COVID-19 ...

While Madagascar is barely recovering from the impacts of COVID-19, the latest economic update warns of new threats are weighing on the country's economic outlook The report notes that Madagascar ...

Vincentian Father Pedro Opeka greets children who are housed in his Akamasoa "Community of Good Friends" in Madagascar Aug. 27, 2019. (CNS photo/Baz Ratner, Reuters) During his sojourn in Madagascar ...

Pope Francis and Father Pedro Opeka, founder of the Akamasoa Community of Good Friends, attend a meeting with members of the community in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Sept. 8, 2019. (CNS photo/Paul ...

True to his reputation as “pope of the poor”, Pope Francis began a visit Saturday to Madagascar, one of the world’s most impoverished nations with a unique and threatened environment. Arriving from ...

Visiting a vast stone quarry worked by some of the poorest people in Madagascar, one of the poorest countries in the world, Pope Francis prayed Sept. 8 that laborers would experience consolation and ...

75% of Malagasy people live on less than two dollars a day. The pandemic triggered a deep recession in the country, with the World Bank predicting this has tipped 100 million people into extreme ...

Madagascar is in the grip of a deadly famine. For months, international’s organizations have blamed the calamity on climate change. A new study rejects that assumption, finding instead that the main ...

To see why thousands have taken to the streets of Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, in recent days, look up from the demonstrations to the cable car that dangles above the city. The line, which ...