[RFI] The world's smallest primate, Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, may have gone extinct as large swathes of its forest home are cleared for crops, scientists studying the species in western Madagascar warn.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Madagascar police officers have shot protesters during a demonstration about the kidnapping of a child with albinism at in the southeastern town of Ikongo, according to AFP, killing at least 18 people. Dozens more were wounde...

[DW] Officers opened fire on the around 500 protesters, who were demanding four people suspected of kidnapping an albino child be handed over to them. Police say protesters were armed with "knives and sticks."