Police on the island of Madagascar are investigating whether a British teenager deliberately threw herself to her death after escaping from a tiny two-door plane as it flew over the savanna.

International conservationists in Madagascar have been treating more than 10,000 critically endangered radiated tortoises that were seized from traffickers who had crammed them into a house with no access to food or water.

The death toll from a cyclone in Madagascar has risen to 25, with a dozen people still missing.

Coping with a plague outbreak has been a shock for many of Madagascar's city dwellers.

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