Anecdotal evidence indicates there was also official complicity in permitting organized child prostitution rings to operate, particularly in Nosy Be.
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A child sex tourism problem exists in coastal cities, including Tamatave, Nosy Be, and Diego Suarez, as well as the capital city of Antananarivo; some children are recruited for work in the capital using fraudulent offers of employment as waitresses and maids before being forced into the commercial sex trade on the coast.
Nosyberkol was originally isolated in 2004 from a marine sponge in the ocean near island of Nosy Be after which it was named.
Ninie Doniah is a Malagasy singer and composer of salegy music that originates from the northern coastal area of Madagascar, including her birthplace of Nosy Be.
With Terakaly, he performed for the first time at a major music festival, the Donia music festival at Nosy Be.
As a child he was educated in nous Catholic missions, attending the Brothers of Saint Gabriel in Nosy Be, and later the College of the Saint Joseph Christian Brothers in Tamatave.
Saalmüller named this species after Carl Reuter who collected the specimen for the Museum of Natural History of his hometown Lübeck in Loucoube, Nosy Bé, Madagascar.