Word: madagascars
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...Sisterhood." She is also an active humanitarian, having served on the board of directors for healthcare nonprofit Population Services International since 2004. She was also Global Ambassador for YouthAIDS, the organization's HIV education and prevention program, and has traveled to a number of developing countries, including Thailand, Madagascar, and Rwanda...
...This rhetorical praise of human rights and justice has remained a core tenet of Obama's foreign policy, though his arrival in Africa is marked by mixed signs of political progress. Recent years have brought coups to Mauritania, Madagascar and Guinea, and distorted or disputed elections in Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe. It was to this continued unrest that Obama seemed to direct his message, which was clearly scripted more for an African audience than an American one. The U.S. State Department arranged for listening events in several countries on the continent to get the message out. "Africa's future...
Watch a video about wildlife in Madagascar...
...Madagascar FROM CHAOS TO COUP President Marc Ravalomanana ceded power to the country's military on March 17 after soldiers stormed a presidential palace in the capital city of Antananarivo. The move followed two months of antigovernment protests--many of which were prompted by Antananarivo's ex-mayor, former DJ Andry Rajoelina, who declared himself the country's new leader. Ravalomanana accused his political rival of seizing power by illegal means (according to Madagascar's constitution, the 34-year-old Rajoelina isn't old enough to be President), while the African Union accused Rajoelina of orchestrating a coup that threatens...
Bryan's story grew out of a trip he took to the African nation of Madagascar last year. Madagascar is a living museum of animal diversity, a country the size of France that may have as many as 5% of all the species on Earth. But it is also an ecological "hot spot,"--a place of extreme biodiversity that is under great threat. Bryan was accompanied by primatologist Russell Mittermeier, who is president of Conservation International, one of the world's best-known wildlife-preservation groups. It is helping Madagascar grow an ecotourism industry that will help save not only...