A boat accident off the coast of Madagascar killed at least 60 people on Wednesday, the 2424.mg news agency reported

The European Union allocated on Wednesday a new grant of 100 million euros ($113 million) to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) to support COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in 12 African countries

The international community must urgently increase its support to people facing severe hunger and other consequences of climate change in the Grand Sud region of Madagascar, the Humanitarian Coordinator for Madagascar at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Issa Sanogo, said on Thursday

UN cluster agencies said on Thursday that 41 million people worldwide were at an imminent risk of famine, a drastic rise from 27 million seen before the pandemic began