Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After suffering through years of drought that has devastated crop yields, the African island nation of Madagascar is on the cusp ...

A nurse talks to mothers about the dangers of malnutrition in Tolanaro, Madagascar, Sept. 24, 2015. Hunger levels are now so severe in drought-ridden southern Madagascar that many people in remote ...

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Southern Madagascar is experiencing its worst drought in four decades with more than 1.14 million people food insecure, the top UN official said in a statement, from a nutrition centre in the region.

A plant traditionally used by healers in Madagascar may offer a new way to treat malaria, a mosquito-borne illness that kills 2-3 million people — mostly children in Sub-Saharan Africa — per year.

Hunger levels are so severe in drought-ridden southern Madagascar that many people in remote villages have eaten almost nothing but cactus fruit for up to four years, said a Catholic Relief Services ...