The Latest Breaking News from Madagascar

The deadly storm has killed more than 20 people and displaced thousands of others during its record run.

Four people were killed when Tropical Cyclone Freddy, which had resurfaced, slammed Madagascar on Monday.

Still recovering from the effects of the first battering, the southwestern African nation of Mozambique is bracing for a rare second hit by long-living Tropical Cyclone Freddy late on Friday night, a regional weather center said Tuesday

After 24 years of extinction, a bird known as “dusky tetraka”, a small passerine species living only in Madagascar, has once again resurfaced, bringing some relief to the scientific community. The yellow-throated bird was seen twice during an ornithological mission in December within a remote forest in northeastern Madagascar. After…

Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured public interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal fossil record.

Mozambican authorities on Thursday were bracing for tropical storm Freddy, which is expected to make landfall in the southern African country on Friday after killing at least four people in Madagascar.

A weakened Cyclone Freddy which pummeled Madagascar Tuesday night with heavy rains and strong destructive winds has killed four people and is continuing to wreak havoc in the southwest of the Indian Ocean nation

Tropical Cyclone Freddy made landfall on Madagascar Tuesday evening, killing at least four people as it brought massive storm surges and wind gusts of up to 180 kilometers per hour that ripped roofs off houses.

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A slightly weakened Cyclone Freddy has made landfall in Madagascar, where schools, business and public transportation were shut down Freddy was packing winds gusting to 180 kilometers per hour, or about 111 miles per hour, as it came ashore in a national already hit in January by a tropical storm…

Madagascar's government suspended schools and transport in the path of tropical cyclone Freddy, which made landfall in the southeast of the island on Tuesday evening, causing a storm surge, ripping roofs off houses and killing at least one person.