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Tropical cyclone formation likely near Madagascar

This infrared image from NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder, AIRS instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite shows how the high cold clouds are starting to band, or wrap around the low’s… Forecasters are watching a low pressure area located off the east coast of Madagascar that appears ripe for development in the Southern Indian Ocean.

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International banks, shipping companies play key role in Madagascar’s logging crisis

Major international banks, shipping companies, and consumers play key role in Madagascar’s logging crisis Rowan Moore Gerety, special to wildmadagascar.org December 16, 2009 In the midst of cyclone season, a ‘dead’ period for tourism to Madagascar’s east coast, Vohemar, a sleepy town dominated by the vanilla trade, is abuzz.

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Madagascar rivals in power-sharing deal

Four current and former leaders of Madagascar have struck a power-sharing deal, ending months of political wrangling that has rocked the island nation off the east coast of Africa, the United Nations said.

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