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Microcredit helps small businesses buck the system in Madagascar

TOLIARA, 16 May 2013 (IRIN) - 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. full report

Food insecurity opens door to TB in Madagascar

 TOLIARA, 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. full report

Consecutive catastrophes hit Madagascar's farmers

 ST AUGUSTIN, 8 April 2013 (IRIN) - 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. full report

Southern Africa cracks down on TB in mines

 JOHANNESBURG, 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. full report

Madagascar's Millennium Village goes it alone

 SAMBAINA, 22 March 2013 (IRIN) - 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. full report

African migrants pay high prices to send money home

 JOHANNESBURG, 27 February 2013 (IRIN) - 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. full report

Tropical Cyclone Haruna hits southwestern Madagascar

 ANTANANARIVO, 25 February 2013 (IRIN) - 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. full report

Locust invasion threatens underfunded Madagascar

 SANHANGY-TSIALIH, 13 February 2013 (IRIN) - After years of underfunding its locust management programme, Madagascar is threatened by a major swarm that could infest most of the island country. full report

Solving statelessness in Southern Africa

 JOHANNESBURG, 30 January 2013 (IRIN) - 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. full report

Navigating Madagascar's pneumonia vaccine roll-out

 AMPASIMANJEVA, 22 January 2013 (IRIN) - 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. full report

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