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Only one road connects Ambatoantrano to the nearest town of Ts’didy.

Augustin, like most people in the village, gets around on a bicycle; it takes him three hours to cycle to Ts’didy – longer when the rains turn the road into a quagmire.

Rabbi Didy Waks was home at the dinner table with his wife and kids in upstate New York when a friend unexpectedly knocked on the door.

More than 45,000 illegal miners poured into the protected Didy forest in central Madagascar last year, pulling down trees and digging up gravel in search of sapphires.

Bandits are often out at night, and eight people have been murdered in the Didy area since 21 December, he said.