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/ 3 February 2004
Tropical storm Elita hit the Indian Ocean island state of Madagascar early on Tuesday — returning to the country for the second time in a week — but there were no initial reports of casualties, weather officials said. Elita left two people dead and 5Â 000 homeless when it first hit the island on January 28.
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/ 22 December 2002
President Marc Ravalomanana’s party won an absolute majority in the country’s parliamentary elections, the interior ministry said on Saturday – marking solid support for the new president.
MARC Ravalomanana was sworn in Monday as president of Madagascar in front of a vast crowd, even as his rivals declared his investiture illegal.
At least 374 people have died of influenza over the last two months in the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, according to a new toll released on Friday by health authorities.
At least 153 people have died in Madagascar in the past two weeks from a viral infection that has yet to identified by doctors,
The UN has invited Madagascar’s President Marc Ravalomanana, sworn in as leader of the Indian Ocean island state in May after a long power struggle, to the Jo’burg Summit.
Soldiers loyal to Madagascar’s new President Marc Ravalomanana have put former prime minister Tantely Andrianarivo under house arrest.
President Marc Ravalomanana of Madagascar has consolidated key territorial gains, and aside from violent incidents in one town, faced no opposition in his progress towards winning a power-struggle with former leader Didier Ratsiraka.