Madagascar

7-February-2017 12:47 BELGRADE - The Republic of Madagascar condemns terrorism and the desecrations of the Serbian cultural heritage in Kosovo-Metohija in the strongest terms as a crime against humanity, Madagascar's Parliament Speaker Jean-Max Rakotomamonjy said Tuesday.

Bilateral relations between Serbia and Madagascar are "traditionally good and friendly."

This is what Serbian First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and President of the National Assembly of Madagascar Jean Max Rakotomamonjy assessed in Belgrade on Tuesday.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan has been staging a quick tour of Africa covering three countries in four days. 

In his visits to Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar, he had two topics on the agenda: 

1- Asking the leaders of those countries to clean their government system of the influence of Fethullah Gülen, the Turkish Islamist preacher living in the United States, and

Turkey's citizens are awaiting major changes with a new constitution that is set for a public vote, according to Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım. 

"The citizens are pushing for a change, they want change. We will not be the side that resists it," he said during an address at a governing board meeting of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Jan. 25.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will later this month embark on a tour to three African countries - Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar - with a large business delegation, in a special focus on investment opportunities and potential business opportunities in seven sectors.

BELGRADE - Russian federal health and epidemic watchdog Rospotrebnadzor is warning of a flare up of bubonic plague in Madagascar, which could put tourists at risk.

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.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic will attend the November 22-26 Summit of the International Organisation of La Francophonie in Madagascar, also expected to be attended by Kosovo President Hasim Taci.

Serbian FM Ivica Dacic met on Tuesday with Madagascar's FM Beatrice Attalah, before the opening of the 16th summit of the Francophonie.

Serbian Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic will attend the November 22-26 Summit of the International Organization of La Francophonie in Madagascar.

Tanjug reported on Tuesday that this event is "also expected to be attended by Kosovo President Hashim Thaci."