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Madagascar court confirms Rajoelina’s win as president

By LAETITIA BEZAIN - Associated Press

A woman casts her ballot paper during a runoff presidential election in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Madagascar counting votes in runoff presidential poll

By LAETITIA BEZAIN - Associated Press

Madagascar heads to runoff election on Dec. 19

By LAETITIA BEZAIN - Associated Press

Mauritania qualifies in another African Cup surprise

By GERALD IMRAY - Associated Press

Voters queue to cast their votes at a polling station in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018. Voters go to the polls to elect a president with hopes that a new leader will take the Indian Island nation out of chronic poverty and corruption. (AP Photo/Kabir Dhanji)

Madagascar starts counting ballots in presidential race

By LAETITIA BEZAIN - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Saturday Nov. 3, 2018, supporters of presidential hopeful, Andry Rajoelina, bottom right, attend an election rally in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Voters will go to the polls Wednesday, Nov. 7 to elect a president with hopes that a new leader will take the Indian Island nation out of chronic poverty and corruption. (AP Photo/Kabir Dhanji)

Madagascar to vote for familiar faces in presidential polls

By LAETITIA BEZAIN - Associated Press

American diplomat death being investigated as homicide

By JIM MUSTIAN - Associated Press

1 dead, at least 37 hurt in crush at Madagascar-Senegal game

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In this photo taken Tuesday, April, 24, 2018 and supplied by The Wildlife Alliance, a critically endangered radiated tortoise is recovering from capture by wildlife traffickers in Madagascar at feeding time at a wildlife facility where it is being taken care of by international conservationists. More than 10,000 of the tortoises had been crammed into a home in Toliara, Madagascar, with no access to food or water until police found them. The radiated tortoises had likely been poached for the illegal pet trade, possibly in Asia. (Susie Bartlett / The Wildlife Conservation Society via AP)

Over 10,000 endangered tortoises are rescued in Madagascar

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

Red Cross volunteers speak to women as they are busy cooking, whilst educating villagers about the plague outbreak, 30 miles west of Antananarivo, Madagascar, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017. As plague cases rose last week in Madagascar's capital, many city dwellers panicked. They waited in long lines for antibiotics at pharmacies and reached through bus windows to buy masks from street vendors. Schools have been canceled, and public gatherings are banned. (AP Photo/Alexander Joe)

WHO: Plague outbreak in Madagascar is slowing

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Madagascar’s plague deaths up to 124, island nation says

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FILE -- In this file photo taken Tuesday Oct. 10, 2017, a girl wears a face mask inside a hospital in the capital Antananarivo, Madagascar. Action Against Hunger said Monday. Oct. 23, 2017 that 102 plague deaths have been reported since the outbreak began in August and that most of the nearly 1,300 reported cases of plague are of the pneumonic kind, a more virulent form that spreads through coughing, sneezing or spitting and is almost always fatal if untreated. (AP Photo/Alexander Joe, File)

Aid group says Madagascar plague outbreak yet to reach peak

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Ibrahima Soce Fall, Regional Emergency Director for Africa, of the World Health Organization, WHO, speaks during a press conference, about the Update on the plague situation in Madagascar, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

94 deaths from plague in Madagascar, UN health agency says

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Red Cross volunteers talk to villagers about the plague outbreak, 30 miles west of Antananarivo, Madagascar, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017. As plague cases rose last week in Madagascar's capital, many city dwellers panicked. They waited in long lines for antibiotics at pharmacies and reached through bus windows to buy masks from street vendors. Schools have been canceled, and public gatherings are banned. (AP Photo/Alexander Joe)

UN says plague cases in Madagascar almost doubled in 5 days

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this photo taken Tuesday Oct. 10, 2017, a girl wears a face mask inside a hospital in the capital Antananarivo, Madagascar. A plague outbreak has brought some panic to the city dwellers with schools closed and public gatherings banned as the death toll still mounts in the Indian Ocean island nation. (AP Photo/Alexander Joe)

In Madagascar, plague outbreak now threatens largest cities

By EDWARD CARVER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017 file photo, children wear face masks at a school in Antananarivo, Madagascar. With dozens dead from a plague outbreak, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Cresent Societies said Friday, Oct. 13, 2017, that it is deploying its first-ever plague treatment center to the island nation. (AP Photo/Alexander Joe, File)

Plague cases double in Madagascar as treatment center sent

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Seychelles reports plague case linked to Madagascar outbreak

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Madagascar’s Red Cross works to curb deadly plague outbreak

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Face masks are placed on children in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017. Authorities in Madagascar are struggling to contain an outbreak of plague that has killed at least two dozen people, and the government has begun a campaign to disinfect school classrooms in the city.(AP Photo/Alexander JOE)

Plague in Madagascar hits urban areas, kills 2 dozen people

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

Sauk Rapids woman learns about public health in Madagascar

By STEPHANIE DICKRELL - Associated Press