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Microcredit helps small businesses buck the system in Madagascar
16 May 2013
(IRIN
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Justine Sija, 60, begins her day at 4am, when she buys catch from local fishermen to hawk on the streets of St Augustin Village, in Madagascar’s southern Atsimo-Andrefana Region. The work is hard, but in the last year, access to microcredit has boosted both her business and her hope for the future.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/98050/Microcredit-helps-small-businesses-buck-the-system-in-Madagascar
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Food insecurity opens door to TB in Madagascar
1 May 2013
(IRIN
),
Health experts fear the interruption of food assistance in Madagascar is increasing incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in Toliara, the capital city of Madagascar’s southern Atsimo-Andrefana region.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97950/Food-insecurity-opens-door-to-TB-in-Madagascar
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Consecutive catastrophes hit Madagascar's farmers
8 April 2013
(IRIN
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Farmers in Madagascar’s southwestern province of Tulear have been hit hard, first by floods and then by locusts, threatening food security in a region already among the poorest in the island country.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97805/Consecutive-catastrophes-hit-Madagascar-s-farmers
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Southern Africa cracks down on TB in mines
25 March 2013
(IRIN
),
South Africa's gold mines are estimated to have the highest number of new tuberculosis (TB) cases in the world, making the disease a leading export to neighbouring countries. IRIN takes a look at the declaration meant to change this situation.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97719/Southern-Africa-cracks-down-on-TB-in-mines
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Madagascar's Millennium Village goes it alone
22 March 2013
(IRIN
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A Millennium Village in Madagascar is learning to stand on its own as five years of support from the UN Development Programme (UNDP) come to an end this month.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97706/Madagascar-s-Millennium-Village-goes-it-alone
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African migrants pay high prices to send money home
27 February 2013
(IRIN
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New data from the World Bank has revealed that African migrants pay more to send money home to their families than any other migrant group in the world.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97557/African-migrants-pay-high-prices-to-send-money-home
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Tropical Cyclone Haruna hits southwestern Madagascar
25 February 2013
(IRIN
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National disaster authorities and aid agencies are struggling to reach remote areas of Madagascar’s southwestern coast where thousands of people are thought to have been made homeless by Tropical Cyclone Haruna, which made landfall on 22 February as a powerful category two cyclone.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97542/Tropical-Cyclone-Haruna-hits-southwestern-Madagascar
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Locust invasion threatens underfunded Madagascar
13 February 2013
(IRIN
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After years of underfunding its locust management programme, Madagascar is threatened by a major swarm that could infest most of the island country.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97460/Locust-invasion-threatens-underfunded-Madagascar
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Solving statelessness in Southern Africa
30 January 2013
(IRIN
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Frederik Ngubane was born in South Africa to South African parents 22 years ago but, lacking any proof of his origins or nationality, he lives a shadowy, marginal existence. He cannot travel, study or secure formal employment and has lost count of how many times he has been arrested for being undocumented.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97372/Solving-statelessness-in-Southern-Africa
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Navigating Madagascar's pneumonia vaccine roll-out
22 January 2013
(IRIN
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Even after days on an antibiotic regime, three-month-old Jean Marie Anselme struggles to breathe and eat at the Fondation Médical d'Ampasimanjeva, a hospital in Vatovavy-Fitovinany Region, in southeastern Madagascar.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97304/Navigating-Madagascar-s-pneumonia-vaccine-roll-out
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In Brief: Staples, not export crops, key to tackling Africa’s poverty – report
18 January 2013
(IRIN
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Africa could reduce its poverty levels faster by focusing more on the production of staples rather than export crops, according to a study by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97278/In-Brief-Staples-not-export-crops-key-to-tackling-Africa-s-poverty-report
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Food-for-work scheme helps Malagasy forests and people
15 January 2013
(IRIN
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The dry, spiny forests of southern Madagascar comprise one of the most unique ecosystems in the world, but they are becoming increasingly endangered as residents of the arid, food-insecure region cut down trees to make way for cultivation and to produce charcoal.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97246/Food-for-work-scheme-helps-Malagasy-forests-and-people
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Funding gap threatens Madagascar's school lunches
28 December 2012
(IRIN
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The provision of school lunches to 215,000 children in 1,200 primary schools in southern Madagascar could be suspended by the end of January 2013 if the World Food Programme (WFP) fails to make up a funding shortfall of US$4.84 million. The funds are needed to cover the cost of running the feeding scheme from December 2012 to May 2013.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97144/Funding-gap-threatens-Madagascar-s-school-lunches
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Relief for fistula sufferers in Madagascar
21 December 2012
(IRIN
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It took three days for Nisehotsara, a farmer’s wife from Betraka, a village on Madagascar’s east coast, to deliver her 10th child. After the difficult birth, she woke up to find her bed soaked with urine.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97095/Relief-for-fistula-sufferers-in-Madagascar
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MADAGASCAR: Traditional midwives back in fashion
12 December 2012
(IRIN
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Madagascar’s traditional midwives, or ‘matronnes’, are often thought to undermine safe childbirth practices, delivering babies in unsanitary environments and without provisions to manage complications. Yet they are now being recruited to a campaign to get women to deliver in clinics or hospitals, part of a move to lower maternal and newborn death rates.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/97024/MADAGASCAR-Traditional-midwives-back-in-fashion
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IDPs: African IDP Convention comes into force
6 December 2012
(IRIN
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The African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) 2009, also known as the Kampala Convention, came into force on 6 December; it is the world’s first legally binding instrument to cater specifically to people displaced within their own countries.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96984/IDPs-African-IDP-Convention-comes-into-force
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MADAGASCAR: Liliana Lova Rahoaritsalamanirinarisoa – Trainee teacher, Madagascar
6 December 2012
(IRIN
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Liliana Lova Rahoaritsalamanirinarisoa, 25, a single mother from the village of Ambohimanga Rova, about 24km east of Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo, is confident about the future - despite her daily struggles.
http://www.irinnews.org/HOV/96857/MADAGASCAR-Liliana-Lova-Rahoaritsalamanirinarisoa-Trainee-teacher-Madagascar
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BANGLADESH-KENYA: Our Lives - A survivors' guide to hard times
6 December 2012
(IRIN
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Price Watch (Our lives)
http://www.irinnews.org/In-depth/96695/98/BANGLADESH-KENYA-Our-Lives-A-survivors-guide-to-hard-times
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MADAGASCAR: Thierry Mafisy Miharivonjy Razafindranaivo – Cook, Madagascar
6 December 2012
(IRIN
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Thierry Mafisy Miharivonjy Razafindranaivo, 26, is one of three cooks in a local fast food restaurant in Antananarivo, Madagascar’s capital.
http://www.irinnews.org/HOV/96859/MADAGASCAR-Thierry-Mafisy-Miharivonjy-Razafindranaivo-Cook-Madagascar
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MADAGASCAR: Cyclone preparations threatened
23 November 2012
(IRIN
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A US$6.1 million funding shortfall is jeopardizing the World Food Programme’s (WFP) practice of pre-positioning relief supplies in many areas vulnerable to cyclones. The practice results in quicker response times to Madagascar’s clockwork-like natural disasters.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96874/MADAGASCAR-Cyclone-preparations-threatened
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