In Madagascar, the economy still in turmoil – Jeune Afrique

2023-10-04 09:06:38

The images went around the world. Gaunt women cook what looks like a coin in a cauldron of dried meat. They are in fact strips of leather, which mothers prepare to serve as meals. The scene takes place in Madagascar.

Last January, the UN estimated that more than 2 million people were food insecure acute in the South and South-East regions of the Big Island. A catastrophe that she described, in a report published in 2021, as “the first famine in history linked to global warming”.

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One of the lowest GDP per capita of monde

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