Written By:KNA , Posted: Mon, Nov 03, 2008 Caption: Kenya Airways Chief Executive Officer Titus Naikuni said their goal is to ensure travellers get to their destination by just one connection. Kenya Airways (KQ) has launched non-stop flights to Antananarivo, Madagascar. KQ will use flight KQ 464 and KQ 465 eventually to operate three uninterrupted flights between Antananarivo and Nairobi...
MADAGASCAR: What will you do when the trees are gone?
IRINnews
IRINnews
web ANTANANARIVO, 3 February 2010 (IRIN) - Madagascar's transitional government is allowing the export of illegally harvested precious hardwoods as a source of revenue to keep itself afloat. Conservationists say the cost...
AU chief worried about Madagascar deadlock
Yahoo Daily News
Yahoo Daily News
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – African Union chief Jean Ping said Thursday he was concerned by the political deadlock in Madagascar, where the AU is involved in seeking a settlement. "Concerning Madagascar, I'm...
AU chief urges Madagascar leader to accept interim gov't
Yahoo Daily News
Yahoo Daily News
ANTANANARIVO (AFP) – The head of the African Union Friday urged Madagascar's leader Andry Rajoelina to accept a unity government to resolve a dragging political crisis, a day after he snubbed the offer....
Rajoelina open to discussion on poll date
Independent online (SA)
Independent online (SA)
By Alain Iloniaina Antananarivo - Madagascar's embattled leader opened the door on Tuesday to the possibility of pushing back the date of widely criticised elections scheduled for March on the Indian Ocean island. The...
Indian Ocean isles eye tourism rebound
MSNBC
MSNBC
ANTANANARIVO - The Indian Ocean's luxury island destinations eye a tourism rebound in 2010 after receipts fell sharply last year despite better than expected arrival numbers. The azure waters and palm-fringed beaches of...
Mammals 'floated to Madagascar'
BBC News
BBC News
The ancestors of the current mammals found on the island of Madagascar could have been transported on floating vegetation from Africa, a study says. Researchers modelled ancient ocean currents and found that favourable...
Animals rafted to Madagascar: study
CBC
CBC
A family of collared brown lemurs, native to Madagascar, is seen here at the Bronx Zoo. (Wildlife Conservation Society/Julie Larsen Maher/Associated Press) The animals that live on Madagascar are descended from animals...
Madagascar mammals came by sea, not land: study
Yahoo Daily News
Yahoo Daily News
PARIS (AFP) – Madagascar's magnificent menagerie of mammals arrived tens of millions of years ago on natural rafts carried by storms and currents, and not across land bridges as some scientists contend,...
Animals may have hitched rides on natural rafts to populate Madagascar
Newstrack India
Newstrack India
Washington, January 21 (ANI): In a new research, a pair of scientists has suggested that animals may have populated Madagascar by hitching rides on natural rafts blown out to sea. According to professors Matthew...
Economy, Services, Commodities and Prices
Nation
Nation
It is happening, regrettably The Retailers Association of Seychelles is, apparently, powerful enough to destroy local industries that depend on the shops for distribution of goods. This column warned on January 15 that...
How exotic wildlife really did jump on a raft and go with the flow to Madagascar
The Times
The Times
The unique fauna of Madagascar, including its celebrated lemurs, reached the island by hitching a lift on natural rafts, scientists have confirmed. The ancestors of present lemurs, civets, mongooses and rodents, found...
Exotic mammals hitched rides on rafts to colonise Madagascar
The Daily Mail
The Daily Mail
Movie or documentary? Exotic mammals, including lemurs (pictured), could have really hitched a ride to Madagascar The animated movie Madagascar - which featured a group of zoo animals hitching a boat ride to the African...
Tropical Depression 11S Forms In The Southern Indian Ocean
redOrbit
redOrbit
Posted on: Thursday, 28 January 2010, 15:03 CST TRMM measures its rainfall from space The eleventh tropical depression formed today in the Southern Indian Ocean...

