Ilakaka is a small-scale town inward the due south due west of Republic of Madagascar along Route Nationale seven , the brain route linking the uppercase urban heart as well as mortal Antananarivo to the port of Toliara. Twenty years agone , Ilakaka practically didn’t be amongst barely xl residents. In less than 10 years , its population soared to threescore ,000 equally people from all over Republic of Madagascar began flocking hither inward search of sapphires.
Sapphire was discovered inward southern Republic of Madagascar inward the belatedly 1990s. Until as well as hence , Ilakaka was niggling to a greater extent than than a truck cease amongst a small-scale collection of huts as well as a few dozen residents. When give-and-take of the regain got out , Ilakaka swelled to tens of thousands of residents , as well as this sleepy settlement became the sapphire uppercase of the earth supplying most 50% of all the sapphires inward the world.