ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Madagascar's leader Andry Rajoelina has snubbed the African Union's top diplomat, again rejecting calls for a consensus government to be formed without delay to resolve a political crisis on the Indian Ocean island. The AU's Jean Ping left Madagascar on Friday after meeting the main power brokers and urging power-sharing deals agreed last year to ...

Madagascar's magnificent menagerie of mammals arrived tens of millions of years ago on natural rafts carried by storms and currents, and not across land bridges as some scientists contend, according to a study released Wednesday. Evolutionary biologists agree, based on evidence from molecular DNA, that the island's major fauna made their way from continental Africa in four stages ...

Key southern African leaders wound up a special summit in the Mozambican capital Maputo on Thursday with calls for a return to dialogue in the ongoing political crisis in Madagascar. The security body of the 15-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) condemned the lack of progress in implementing a power-sharing deal in Madagascar, even as its members praised the leaders ...

Key southern African leaders met in the Mozambican capital Maputo on Thursday for a special summit on the political crises in Zimbabwe and Madagascar. The security organ of the 15-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC), known as the Troika, met "to discuss the security situation in the region" in a meeting that included leaders from South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia, Namibia ...