Improved water, sanitation and hygiene systems are changing lives for the better in Madagascar, with support from UNICEF and S'well. UNICEF and S'well have partnered to expand water infrastructure and ...

As usual, they get up before dawn and, one by one, place their cans in a neat row at the base of the water pump, ready for another long day of waiting and carrying. For the water carriers of ...

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina announced on Monday that he is dissolving the government following youth-led protests over water shortages and power cuts, which the United Nations reports have ...

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar — The government of the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar on Thursday imposed a nighttime curfew following protests, which saw police use rubber bullets and tear gas to quash ...

Reporting from KOBOKARA, Madagascar — Tiny wooden houses are scattered across the harsh gray sand of Kobokara hamlet in southern Madagascar. A woman squats in one of them, looking out her low door.

BESAKOA, Madagascar (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Most days, Hitasoa ignores breakfast and lunch. She is too busy finding enough money to buy food for dinner - and even that is a challenge in ...

For years, Madagascar has faced repeated social crises, primarily due to frequent power outages and water supply cuts in homes lasting hours, if not days. These circumstances have been a source of ...

Clean water changed everything for one family in rural Madagascar. Before a tap was put in her community, Honorine got up at 3 a.m. every morning to walk several miles for water, which was dirty and ...

Egypt’s Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, Hani Sweilem, met on Monday with Minister of Water and Sanitation in Madagascar, Ravokatra Fidiniavo, and his accompanying delegation in Cairo on ...

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