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MADAGASCAR: Cyclone Bingiza's legacy
18 February 2011
(IRIN
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The immediate impact of Cyclone Bingiza after it slammed into Madagscar was less than feared, but in its wake the expectation is for greater food insecurity across the island.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91970/MADAGASCAR-Cyclone-Bingiza-s-legacy
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MADAGASCAR: Rice is 'becoming a luxury'
15 February 2011
(IRIN
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The price of rice, the staple food in Madagascar, has doubled in the past two years, forcing residents in the capital, Antananarivo, to halve their consumption. "At almost 2,000 ariary (US$1) a kilogramme, rice has become a luxury item," Tiana Randrianirina, a rice seller at the main market in the capital, told IRIN.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91934/MADAGASCAR-Rice-is-becoming-a-luxury
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In Brief: Cyclone Bingiza strikes Madagascar
14 February 2011
(IRIN
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Cyclone Bingiza, the first major weather system to strike Madagascar this cyclone season, made landfall in the early hours of 14 February near Cap Masoala in the northeastern Sava region of the Indian Ocean island.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91915/In-Brief-Cyclone-Bingiza-strikes-Madagascar
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Risk of food insecurity in wake of floods
10 February 2011
(IRIN
),
Above average rainfall across many parts of Southern Africa is prompting concern "about the food security of the affected population in the poorer parts of the sub-region over the coming months," the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a new report.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91881/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-Risk-of-food-insecurity-in-wake-of-floods
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MADAGASCAR: Food insecurity tightens its hold
3 February 2011
(IRIN
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In parts of Madagascar's drought-prone south people have resorted to eating cattle-feed, as successive years of crop failures and the current lean season give food insecurity a firmer grip on the region.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91822/MADAGASCAR-Food-insecurity-tightens-its-hold
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Heavy rain puts relief agencies on alert
21 January 2011
(IRIN
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Heavy rains and localized flooding across southern Africa from Angola to Madagascar are raising fears that the devastating floods of 2000 will be repeated. Then, thousands of people were plucked from rooftops by helicopter, several hundred died, and Mozambique’s agricultural production was severely impacted.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91698/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-Heavy-rain-puts-relief-agencies-on-alert
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AFRICA: Serious about food
6 January 2011
(IRIN
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The record prices of staple grains in 2008 made investment in agriculture an attractive proposition for countries exporting as well as importing food. The African Union (AU), with its mix of producers and buyers, has been steadily gearing up for self-sufficiency.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91547/AFRICA-Serious-about-food
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Pick of the year 2010
31 December 2010
(IRIN
),
The crises in Zimbabwe and Madagascar were a major focus of IRIN’s Southern Africa coverage, though riots over food and fuel prices in early September 2010 in Mozambique managed to grab the headlines for a while.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91506/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-Pick-of-the-year-2010
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SOUTHERN AFRICA: Heavy rain, flood warnings
30 December 2010
(IRIN
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The Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) staffed jointly by officials from Zambia and Zimbabwe, says one of the two major dams on the river between the two countries will open its flood gates in early 2011, meaning that communities may have to be relocated.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91491/SOUTHERN-AFRICA-Heavy-rain-flood-warnings
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MADAGASCAR: Fighting a rising tide of sex tourism
26 November 2010
(IRIN
),
Community-based resistance to sex tourism on Nosy Be, an island off the northwest coast of Madagascar and its busiest resort, is holding the line against child sex work, but the country’s declining economic fortunes are making a tough fight even tougher.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91197/MADAGASCAR-Fighting-a-rising-tide-of-sex-tourism
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