Cyclone Batsirai: Whole villages swept away
7 February 2022 At least 10 people have been killed and nearly 50,000 displaced after Cyclone Batsirai brought strong winds and rain to Madagascar on Saturday evening. One of the…
Floods in Madagascar threaten over a million
19 January 2022 At least 10 people have died in flash floods triggered by torrential rain that battered Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo overnight, an interior ministry official said on Tuesday. The…
World’s smallest reptile found in Madagascar
05 February 2021 Scientists believe they may have discovered the smallest reptile on earth – a chameleon subspecies that is the size of a seed. Two of the tiny lizards…
WHO warns SA to be on high alert for ‘black death’ plague
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 26 October 2017| 05 Safar 1439 South Africa is one of nine countries which have been warned by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to be on…
Madagascar plague appears to have spread to Seychelles
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 17 October 2017| 26 Muharram 1439 A probable case of plague in the Seychelles, imported from Madagascar, is believed to have sparked the Indian Ocean country’s…
Madagascar: Truck crash kills 47, including newly-weds
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 30 January 2017| 01 Jamadul Ula 1438 At least 47 people die and 22 suffer injuries in road accident outside the town of Anjozorobe near Madagascar’s…