Maritime authorities say 50 people have been rescued after boat sank with 138 people on board.
Serge Gelle swam to safety after his helicopter crashed while visiting the site of a shipwreck that killed dozens.
More than a million people on Madagascar’s parched southern tip are on the brink of famine, global rights group says.
Why people in Madagascar are starving.
A four-year drought has pushed at least 30,000 people in southern Madagascar to level five of famine, the UN warned.
Public security minister says those arrested also included two Malagasy and two Malagasy and French bi-nationals.
More than one million people need emergency food and nutrition aid, with 14,000 already in ‘catastrophic conditions’.
Foreign nationals among those arrested over plan to ‘kill and neutralise’ top political figures, attorney general says.
Communities are on the verge of starvation.
After declining for several decades, world hunger has been on the rise since 2016, driven by conflict and climate change
Near-total disappearance of food sources has created ‘full-blown nutrition emergency’ in south Madagascar, WFP warns.
The crisis follows three straight years of drought as well as a deep recession triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
UN human rights office calls for probe into prisoners fatally shot while trying to flee Farafangana jail on August 23.
Tens of prisoners attacked guards with rocks and grabbed a gun as they tried to flee the Farafangana prison.