Colonel Michael Randrianirina of the Malagasy army unit CAPSAT has been sworn in as the new president of Madagascar, just days after carrying out a military takeover of the island. The change in leadership in Madagascar came as the result of three weeks of social unrest and widespread violence, after young Malagasy people staged a demonstration following increasingly regular…
The situation in Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo is calm at present, following widespread protests across the city and in other areas of Madagascar yesterday (Thursday 25 September). Five people have been confirmed killed in disturbances developing from the protests. Thousands of people defied a national ban on ‘large gatherings’ to unite in the capital city on Thursday in a pre-planned…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has concluded an in-country review of Madagascar’s economic situation with a warning that ‘outside shocks’ ‘cloud’ the country’s economic outlook. While the international financial body, which last year stepped in to provide Madagascar with and Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and a Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF), both of which it believes can help the…
On Thursday 5th June 2025, the World Bank updated its – and the world’s – poverty metric. Up to that date, the international poverty baseline – the line below which anyone is defined as living in poverty – had been an income of US$2.15 (£1.59 at 8th September 2025) or less per day. From then, the income per day…
A new frog discovery in Madagascar’s South-East reminds us how resilient, but also how threatened, the Malagasy wilderness is. A large frog has been discovered in Madagascar’s Domain de la Cascade Plantation Lansargues nature reserve, in the country’s South-East. The three-inch amphibian, named Love’s Giant Stream Frog (after the herpetologist Bill Love, who has contributed greatly to the understanding…
A Money for Madagascar supporter has raised hundreds of pounds to hep us work with Malagasy men, women and children, with a 100km (62 mile) hill-trek. Gregg Smith completed the timed hike through the UK’s Peak District on 28-29 June, and thanks in part to your help, raised £626, well above his original target of £500. He said: ‘The…
Almost 200 children and staff at a Malagasy primary school now have reliable access to safe, clean water, thanks to Money for Madagascar, its partner and funders. The 191 children, and seven staff, at the EPP Ambohipeno, five km from the centre of Antsirabe, had previously had to walk more than two km round trip to collect water from…
Two reports in recent days have addressed the severity of climate catastrophe’s impact on Malagasy men, women and children. Amnesty International has issued an extremely critical report regarding the treatment of more than 90,000 Antandroy men, women and children who have been forced to flee the Androy region in Southern Madagascar since 2017. The region has been stricken by…
A Malagasy folk tale, like many told around the world, hints at a deal made between people and nature. We share the tale of Ranoro, the Daughter of the Water, here, in part to share a piece of Madagascar’s rich cultural tradition (we will try to do this again, too) and in part to highlight the relationship we –…
The people, the plants, and the animals of Madagascar are fighting a battle for survival, against problems which are almost all not of their making. Our work is inclusive, it is fair, and it is necessary. Join us. At Money for Madagascar, we work with and for Malagasy organisations, communities and individuals, offering people a platform from which their…
Malagasy president and colonel of the CAPSAT…
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