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Residents wave flags at French President Emmanuel Macron upon his arrival in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Joe)

Macron in Madagascar for the first state visit by a French leader to the former colony in 20 years

President Emmanuel Macron has begun a two-day visit to the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar in what is the first state visit by a French leader to its former colony off the east coast of Africa since Jacques Chirac’s in 2005.
 
Matumelo Manosa, center, works in a garment factory in Maseru, Lesotho, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Neo Ntsoma, file )

African nations that faced steep Trump tariffs get some relief but mostly more uncertainty

 
This undated handout photo provided by the Turtle Survival Alliance shows staff members and volunteers rescuing some of the thousands of endangered tortoises that were washed away from the Lavavolo Tortoise Center in southern Madagascar during flooding due to Cyclone Dikeledi. (Lavavolo Tortoise Center via AP)

Thousands of endangered tortoises are rescued in Madagascar after their sanctuary is flooded

 
In this photograph released by Interpol, a Thai official puts radiated tortoises in crates for their journey to Tanzania at Customs Export Clearance Building, Suvarnabhumi Airport, in Samut Prakarn province, Thailand, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (Ujjwal Meghi/Interpol via AP)

Thais send smuggled tortoises home to Tanzania as evidence against suspected wildlife traffickers

 
Women wait in line at a water distribution point in Mamoudzou, Mayotte, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant)

Destructive Cyclone Chido unearths a rift between locals and migrants in France’s Mayotte

 

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EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Bodies of migrants who were washed away after two boats capsized are seen on the shore of the Madagascar coast in the Indian Ocean, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Bebel Betombo)

Madagascar officials say the death toll is now 25 after boats carrying Somali migrants capsized

 
FILE - Andry Nirina Rajoelina, president of Madagascar, speaks at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Madagascar’s Parliament has passed a law allowing for the chemical and in some cases surgical castration of those found guilty of the rape of a minor. It has prompted criticism from international rights groups but has also found support from activists in the country who say it’s an appropriate deterrent to try and curb a “rape culture.” (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Madagascar law allowing castration of child rapists prompts criticism from rights groups

 
FILE - Cardinal Fridolin Among Besungu leaves after receiving the red three-cornered biretta hat from Pope Francis during a consistory inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Oct. 5, 2019. In the greatest rebuke of Pope Francis yet, the Catholic hierarchy of Africa and Madagascar issued a unified statement Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024, refusing to offer blessings to same-sex couples and reaffirming that such unions are “contrary to the will of God.” The statement, signed by Congolese Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo on behalf of the symposium of African national bishops conferences, marked the closest thing to a continent-wide dissent from a declaration Francis approved Dec. 18 allowing priests to offer such blessings. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Africa’s Catholic hierarchy refuses same-sex blessings, says such unions are contrary to God’s will

 
FILE - President Andry Rajoelina addresses supporters at an election rally in Antananarivo, Sunday Nov. 12, 2023. Madagascar’s top court has ratified the victory of incumbent President Andry Rajoelina in last month’s election. It gives him a third term as leader following a boycott of the Nov. 16 vote by opposition candidates. (AP Photo/Alexander Joe)

Madagascar’s top court ratifies president’s reelection in vote boycotted by opposition

 
Main opposition party leader Siteny Randrianasoloniaiko arrives to cast his vote at a polling station in the presidential elections in Antananarivo, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. Madagascar's Andry Rajoelina is pushing ahead with a presidential election, Thursday, Nov. 16, that could give him a third term, even as opposition protests roil the country and the majority of candidates have announced a boycott. (AP Photo/Alexander Joe)

Madagascar’s main opposition candidate files a lawsuit claiming fraud in the presidential election

 
President, Andry Rajoelina, addresses supporters at an election rally in Antananarivo, Sunday Nov. 12, 2023. Rajoelina is pushing ahead with a presidential election, Thursday, Nov. 16, that could give him a third term, even as opposition protests roil the country and the majority of candidates have announced a boycott. (AP Photo/Alexander Joe)

Madagascar president on course for reelection as supporters claim they were promised money to vote

 
President, Andry Rajoelina, addresses supporters at an election rally in Antananarivo, Sunday Nov. 12, 2023. Rajoelina is pushing ahead with a presidential election, Thursday, Nov. 16, that could give him a third term, even as opposition protests roil the country and the majority of candidates have announced a boycott. (AP Photo/Alexander Joe)

Madagascar’s incumbent President Rajoelina takes early lead in vote marked by boycott, low turnout

 
A man casts his vote in the presidential election in Antananarivo, Madagascar Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina is pushing ahead with a presidential election Thursday, that could give him a third term, even as opposition protests roil the country and the majority of candidates have announced a boycott. (AP Photo/Alexander Joe)

Vote counting starts in Madagascar election marked by low turnout and boycotted by most candidates

 
Ruling party supporters of President, Andry Rajoelina, attend an election rally in Antananarivo, Sunday Nov. 12, 2023. Madagascar's Andry Rajoelina is pushing ahead with a presidential election, Thursday, Nov. 16, that could give him a third term, even as opposition protests roil the country and the majority of candidates have announced a boycott. (AP Photo/Alexander Joe)

Madagascar police impose curfew on eve of presidential election, after polling stations torched

 
FILE - Presidential candidate Marc Ravalomanana cast his vote during a runoff presidential election in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. Madagascar’s highest court has on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023 ruled that next month’s presidential election be postponed for a week to allow authorities to prepare after two candidates were injured during protests when security forces fired tear gas grenades. Opposition candidates Andry Raobelina and former president Marc Ravalomanana both say they sustained minor injuries during protests this month. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, file)

Madagascar postpones presidential election for a week after candidates are hurt in protests

 
FILE - People queue to fill up containers with water in Tsoundzou, Mayotte island, Saturday Feb.6, 2021 during the Covid pandemic. France is sending military forces to distribute water on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, which is facing an unprecedented water crisis prompted by the island's most severe drought in decades. Troops with the French Foreign Legion and French navy based in the region will work with local authorities to ensure water supplies to local populations, the Defense Ministry said in a statement Thursday Sept. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/ Sony Ibrahim Chamsidine, File)

France sends the army to ensure water to drought-stricken Indian Ocean island of Mayotte

 
People gather outside the HJRA hospital, in Antananarivo. Madagascar, Friday Aug.25, 2023, to find out situation of loved ones after a crush at a local stadium. Local media in Madagascar report that at least 12 people have died in a crush at the stadium as sports fans gathered for the opening ceremony of the Indian Ocean Island Games.(AP Photo Laetitia Bezain)

Crush of people at opening ceremony of the Indian Ocean Island Games in Madagascar kills at least 12