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Madagascar : ce que le drame d'Ambohimalaza révèle sur la gestion de l’information publique
The Conversation
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September 3, 2025
En juin 2025 Madagascar a fait face à une crise sanitaire dramatique. Une trentaine jeunes ont perdu la vie après un événement festif à Ambohimalaza, une commune rurale située à 15 km à l'est de la capitale Antananarivo. Les autorités évoquent un...
Madagascar welcomes home skulls of Indigenous warriors taken by French colonial troops 128 years ago
Associated Press
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September 2, 2025
ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar on Tuesday received three skulls of Indigenous warriors returned from France, including one believed to be of a king killed by French troops 128 years ago. It’s the first use of a 2023 French law...
Madagascar receives skull of beheaded king returned by France
Modern Ghana
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Madagascar held a ceremony Tuesday marking the return of three skulls kept by France for 128 years, including one believed to be that of a Malagasy king decapitated by French troops in the 19th century. France handed over the skulls in Paris on...
France returns skulls of beheaded king, warriors to Madagascar
Punch
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September 2, 2025
Madagascar on Tuesday held a solemn ceremony to mark the return of three ancestral skulls taken to France 128 years ago, including one believed to be that of a Malagasy king executed during the country’s colonial conquest. The remains, thought to...
CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: Coding the future... in Chinese?
CNBC
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September 3, 2025
This week, I unpack how China is not only striking economic deals but expanding its tech training programs to a slew of countries outside the U.S. orbit. It was one of the announcements coming out of the largest-ever Shanghai Cooperation...
Kenya’s Hosting of CHAN 2025 Shows Progress in Football Infrastructure and Tech Ahead of Bigger Tournaments
TechTrendsKE
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September 1, 2025
When Morocco edged Madagascar 3–2 in the final at Moi International Sports Centre on 30 August 2025, the headline was a title. Underneath it, CHAN 2025 quietly announced something larger: East Africa can run a modern, technically credible...
Stanford awards over $4 million for new climate change research initiatives
South SFV Today - California
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September 1, 2025
Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment has announced over $4 million in funding for 22 research teams focused on environmental and climate challenges. The selected projects include twelve Environmental Venture Projects (EVP),...
Guelph author's book celebrates women of science
Guelph Today
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August 31, 2025
Sisters of the Jungle author Keriann McGoogan will be appearing at the Eden Mills Writers's Festival Sept. 7 From 1966 to 1977 researchers asked more than 4,000 elementary kids to draw a scientist. Only 28 of those drawings were of a woman and of...
Should governments pay businesses for climate disasters? Researchers unpack huge lawsuits in South Africa
The Conversation
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August 31, 2025
The most catastrophic natural disaster ever recorded in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province – also the worst flood in South Africa for more than a century – has sparked two major lawsuits by insurance companies whose business clients suffered...
Restitution of colonial-era artifacts from France to Madagascar
eNCA
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PARIS - France has returned three colonial-era skulls to Madagascar. These include one believed to be that of a Malagasy king decapitated by French troops, during a 19th-century massacre. King Toera's skull was handed over in the first restitution...
Zuchu denies being booed at Kasarani Stadium during performance: "Altered video"
TUKO
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September 3, 2025
Singer Zuchu's performance at the CHAN 2024 closing ceremony is still dominating conversations on social media The Bongo queen responded to a viral clip showing Kenyan fans singing the national anthem, which sparked controversy Zuchu claimed the...
Stony Brook University Launches CLEAR-IP to Advance Industry Partnerships in Research
Newswise
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August 29, 2025
Newswise — Stony Brook, NY, August 28, 2025 – Stony Brook University has announced the launch of its new Commercial Licensing and Express IP terms for Applied Research (CLEAR-IP) program, an innovative and flexible approach to licensing...
Scientists unleash robotic cockroach army for disaster zones
Bangkok Post
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August 26, 2025
SINGAPORE — Scientists in Singapore have industrialised the production of remote-controlled cyborg cockroaches that one day could form a tiny army suitable for disaster search missions. Last month, researchers led by Hirotaka Sato at Nanyang...
France returns three human skulls back to Madagascar 128 years after they were taken
The Voice
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August 28, 2025
FRANCE HAS returned three human skulls back to Madagascar 128 years after they were taken. The three colonial-era skulls – including one believed to be that of a Malagsy king killed by French soldiers – were previously held in a Paris museum. In a...
France returns skulls of King Toera and Sakalava leaders to Madagascar after 128 years
The Economic Times
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August 27, 2025
France has officially returned three human skulls to Madagascar, including one believed to be that of King Toera, a 19th-century Malagasy monarch who was decapitated by French colonial forces in 1897. This repatriation ceremony, held at the French...
France returns three human skulls to Madagascar—including one that may have belonged to a king
The Art Newspaper
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August 27, 2025
The skulls of three leaders—potentially including a king—beheaded by French troops during the colonial conquest of Madagascar have been restituted to the African country. The restitution, which took in a ceremony held in Paris on Tuesday 26...
Scientists find route to chocolate 'perfection'
BBC
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Ben MellorBBC News, Nottingham ShareSave Cocoa beans are traditionally left in boxes or sacks out in the field to ferment Scientists claim they have finally cracked the code behind the perfect chocolate flavour - and their findings might surprise...
France Returns Human Skulls to Madagascar 128 Years After Colonial Violence
teleSUR
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France has returned three skulls to Madagascar, including one believed to be King Toera’s, ending 128 years of contested possession rooted in colonial violence. Ceremonial handover in Paris of three skulls taken from Madagascar during French...
France returns skull of king beheaded during colonial era to Madagascar
CNN
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August 27, 2025
France has returned three skulls to Madagascar more than a century after they were taken, including one believed to be that of a 19th-century Malagasy king who was beheaded by French troops. The repatriation of the skulls to the island nation off...
France Returns Looted Skull Of Beheaded King Toera, Two Others To Madagascar 128 Years After Colonial Atrocities
Sahara Reporters
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France has returned three human skulls looted during the colonial period to Madagascar, including one believed to be that of King Toera, who was beheaded by French troops in 1897. King Toera was beheaded by French troops in 1897, and his skull was...