South Africa appears to be suffering from an open border crisis under the black government. This has led to rioting and good old-fashioned machete gangs of local South Africans attacking Nigerian migrants. New York Times: Pop stars have announced a boycott. Air Tanzania has suspended flights to Johannesburg. Madagascar and Zambia are refusing to send their soccer teams. Nigeria has recalled its ambassador... 

The YouTuber who shared the mind-boggling finding said he was inspired by the discovery of a new submarine volcano off the coast of Africa last week, which is believed to be behind a series of mysterious low-frequency quakes near the French island of Mayotte, located between Mozambique and Madagascar. YouTube vlogger MrMBB333, whose discoveries have always spawned conspiracy theories online, has shared... 

The elusive Omura’s whale has been documented for the first time ever by an international group of scientists, over a decade after the mysterious mammal was described as a new species. Previously, no living Omura’s whales had been observed in the wild, according to the study published in the Royal Society Open Space journal. Researchers confirmed that they are tracing the first-detected living... 

The Anosibe slum area is seen in the Malagasy capital Antananarivo. Malagasy officials have raised the death toll from a recent bubonic plague outbreak to 47 as the bacterial disease spreads through the country. Madagascar’s Health Ministry made the announcement on Monday, and warned that the toll would probably rise over the coming months as it spreads towards the capital Antananarivo. They added... 

Bubonic plague is mostly transmitted to humans by rats and fleas. At least 21 people have died this week in northern Madagascar after contracting pneumonic plague, the Health Ministry says. A village near the northwestern town of Mandritsara on the island of Madagascar is where at least 21 people perished following a deadly outbreak of the plague, the ministry said on Wednesday. Medical experts from... 

A team of international researchers has discovered fragments of an ancient supercontinent of earth vanished beneath the floor of the Indian Ocean. The fragments, called Mauritia, are remains of a landmass on earth that would have existed between 2,000 and 85 million years ago, researchers say. The earth’s landmass was gathered into a vast single continent called Rodinia, according to the study... 

A tourist spot in Mozambique The World Bank has warned that due to global warming a number of coastal countries in the world such as Bangladesh and Mozambique are to disappear over the next century. According to the report prepared by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Climate Analytics, the World Bank warned climate change, which is causing global warming and sea level rise... 

A juvenile Brookesia micra chameleon sits on the head of a match. Scientists say a chameleon species that has been recently discovered on a tiny island off Madagascar is the smallest of its kind ever found. A team of scientists has found four new chameleon species in northern Madagascar including Brookesia micra, which is small enough to easily perch on a match head. As one of the world’s smallest... 

Former President of Madagascar Marc Ravalomanana who lives in exile, Saturday (28/08/2010), was sentenced to hard labor for life for their part in the incident known as the murder of February 7, 2009. “Ravalomanana has sentence without his presence to forced labor for life for murder and additional murders,” said Hanitra Razafimanantsoa, lawyer president who imposed it, who is in exile...