- Title: Crowds line the streets to welcome Pope Francis to Madagascar
- Date: 6th September 2019
- Summary: VARIOUS OF POSTERS OF POPE
- Embargoed: 20th September 2019 16:45
- Keywords: Pope arrival Madagascar Antananarivo Pope trip to Africa Pope Francis
- Location: ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR
- City: ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR
- Country: Madagascar
- Topics: Religion/Belief,Society/Social Issues
- Reuters ID: LVA002AVITRUV
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Hundreds of people lined the streets in Antananarivo, Madagascar on Friday (September 6) to catch a glimpse of Pope Francis.
The second leg of his six-day trip in Africa, started with military honours and a welcome by the country's president Andry Rajoelina and his wife Mialy.
Environment is expected to be high on the pope's agenda as he visits the continent where Catholicism is growing fast.
In Madagascar, the world's fourth-largest island, about 44% of forests have disappeared over the past 60 years, according to the French agricultural research centre CIRAD. The environmental danger there is aggravated because 80% of its plant and animal species are not found anywhere else.
Poverty, war and corruption will also loom large during the trip.
The WFP says more than 90% of Madagascar's population of 26 million live on less than $2.00 a day and chronic child malnutrition is widespread.
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