Antananarivo

"For all our family members that might not hear this announcement and the measures to be taken, please inform them by giving them a phone call. We must move to a safer place to protect ourselves from the potential rising waters during this cyclone."

What can be done to prevent Africa from becoming the world's biggest dumping ground for plastic?

That's one of the big questions facing United Nations members next week at a stock-taking on Earth's environmental woes.

From Antananarivo to Dakar via Nairobi and Conakry, African cities are scarred by huge landfills where plastic waste is measured in the thousands of tonnes.

A French man whose wife and two of his three children were on a Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared in 2014 says he is still trying to find out what happened to the aircraft partly as a way of dealing with the emotional pain of his loss.

ANTANANARIVO - Serbian Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic spoke with Mauritian PM Anerood Jugnauth on the fringes of the summit of the International Organisation of La Francophonie in Antananarivo, thanking him for the support for Serbia's territorial integrity and non-recognition of Kosovo's independence.

ANTANANARIVO - Serbia is ready to consider the possibility of, and the conditions for, becoming a full member of the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF), but opposes politicisation of the OIF, UNESCO and the UN system as regards Kosovo, FM Ivica Dacic said in Antananarivo.

ANTANANARIVO - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said Wednesday he had launched resolute diplomatic activities aimed at preventing further recognitions of Kosovo-Metohija with a series of bilateral meetings in the Madagascan capital Antananarivo, where he is attending a summit of the International Organisation of La Francophonie.

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday he had launched resolute diplomatic activities aimed at preventing further recognitions of Kosovo.

He is doing so "with a series of bilateral meetings in the Madagascan capital Antananarivo, where he is attending a summit of the International Organization of the Francophonie," Tanjug has reported.

The Department of Homeland Security said on May 29 it is considering expanding airline preclearance operations to 10 new foreign airports in nine countries, most of them in Europe.