Mauritius : News

[AIM]Maputo -The CTA informs that a business conference bringing together the Ministers of Industry and Commerce, entrepreneurs and prominent members of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, will be held on July, 4 and 5, at the Swami Vivekananda International Convention Centre in Mauritius. (AllAfrica)

[L'Express]Well I am glad that it was not implemented on the 1st of April as it could have been perceived to be an April's fool joke. (AllAfrica)

JOHANNESBURG 27 February 2013 (IRIN) - New data from the World Bank has revealed that African migrants pay more to send money home to their families than any other migrant group in the world. (irinnews.org)

[Zimbabwe Standard]AFRASIA Bank Limited (ABL), the anchor shareholder in Kingdom Bank's parent company, says it is in Zimbabwe for the long haul and will take steps to position its investment into one of the leaders in the sector. (AllAfrica)

[L'Express]On 21st Dec. 1988 evening, a tragic plane accident lit up the calm Lockerbie sky of southwest Scotland. It was a Pan Am 103 flight which had burst into flames. On board were 243 passengers and 16 crew members. All were instantly killed. (AllAfrica)

[The Herald]Imports from Mauritius have risen by 6 percent following the Buyers and Sellers Meetings held in that country over the past two years, a leading business representative body has said. (AllAfrica)

[RFI]Mauritian bluesman, Eric Triton, scratches the surface of the idealistically portrayed rainbow island of Mauritius. His soulful songs call for unity and often blame politicians for communal rifts. Despite being vocal about the wrongs of the island, he is firmly convinced that Mauritius is the world's "beacon of light" for tolerance. (AllAfrica)

[L'Express]Eleven persons die in Port-Louis fl ood. The roadworks in the Port- Louis area appear to be at least partly to blame for the deaths. (AllAfrica)

NAIROBI 19 July 2012 (IRIN) - Many sub-Saharan African nations - traditionally the beneficiaries of international HIV funding - are gradually increasing their financial contributions to the fight against the virus, boosting the number of people on treatment to record highs according to a new UNAIDS report, Together We Will End AIDS, released on 18 July. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 21 April 2011 (IRIN) - A group of international academic institutions and an NGO backed by the European Union (EU) have launched Sustainable Nutrition Research for Africa in the Years to come, or SUNRAY, to develop a nutrition agenda for Africa, with specific emphasis on the 34 sub-Saharan countries. (irinnews.org)

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A month ago a flash flood in the capital of Port Louis in Mauritius had taken the lives of eleven people in broad day light, and the water coming down from the slopes of the mountains caused havoc to the dwellings of hundreds of citizens with debris blocking the evacuation drains made under the French era to channel water into the sea in front of ... (more)

[The Star]Nairobi will host the maiden edition of the Mauritius Trade and Investment Forum from May 8 to 9 at the Hilton Hotel. (AllAfrica)

[L'Express]Our guest left Mauritius many years ago for Canada. He recently returned for a few weeks to share some of his knowledge and experience with the country's youth in particular. Here's what he thinks about a broad range of issues, from CT Power to the Prime minister's choice of automobile. (AllAfrica)

[L'Express]The false dawn of an Arab democratic renaissance following the Arab uprising in the spring of 2011, the ongoing financial crisis gripping Europe and the USA with stagnant economic growth despite tough austerity measures, the failure of economic dogmas to address these issues, the resurgence of right wing political parties and emergence of protest movements could augur the demise of politics as we have known it over the ages. (AllAfrica)

[L'Express]This tiny spot in the Indian Ocean which is trumpeted as a "plaisir" country is certainly not one for those who are engaged in the agricultural sector. (AllAfrica)

JOHANNESBURG/MANZINI 17 July 2012 (IRIN) - The livelihoods of tens of thousands of textile workers in Africa is hanging in the balance amid growing anxiety about whether a key provision of US trade legislation will be renewed before it expires in September. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 19 June 2012 (IRIN) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has halved food rations to refugees living in camps in at least four African countries citing a funding shortfall. (irinnews.org)

ANTANANARIVO 21 May 2012 (IRIN) - Madagascar has a low level of HIV prevalence, and managing its AIDS programme should present no major difficulties. But the apparent advantage of a low infection rate, combined with the ongoing political crisis, has brought its own challenges. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 15 May 2012 (IRIN) - The UN Development Programme (UNDP) launched its first Africa Human Development Report today, stressing food security as a means to a better quality of life for all. (irinnews.org)

KAMPALA 02 December 2011 (IRIN) - Brandishing a plea for developed countries to make good their promises to reduce carbon emissions, 300 farmers, youths and activists took the scenic route to the COP17 conference in Durban, travelling more than 7,000km from Burundi in 17 days, through 10 eastern and southern African countries, aboard a convoy of buses draped in various national flags. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 18 October 2011 (IRIN) - Genetically modified (GM) food aid bound for Africa has long been a bone of contention among governments, scientists, activists, consumers and aid workers. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI 08 April 2011 (IRIN) - What?s green, controversial, 15km wide, 7,775km long, cuts across 11 African countries and is designed to reduce livestock deaths and boost food security for millions of people? Nothing yet, but the Great Green Wall project, a pipe-dream for decades, was recently endorsed by a swathe of African states stretching from Senegal to Djibouti. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 06 January 2011 (IRIN) - The record prices of staple grains in 2008 made investment in agriculture an attractive proposition for countries exporting as well as importing food. The African Union (AU), with its mix of producers and buyers, has been steadily gearing up for self-sufficiency. (irinnews.org)

HARARE/JOHANNESBURG 30 December 2010 (IRIN) - The Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) staffed jointly by officials from Zambia and Zimbabwe, says one of the two major dams on the river between the two countries will open its flood gates in early 2011, meaning that communities may have to be relocated. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI 24 November 2010 (IRIN) - Gay rights groups have hailed the results of the first study to show that an antiretroviral (ARV) drug can prevent HIV as an important step in the fight against HIV, but say that in countries that criminalize homosexuality, the breakthrough is unlikely to have a significant impact. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 04 November 2010 (IRIN) - Dominicano Mulenga, national coordinator of Zambia's Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit, goes through his to-do list as the rainy season sets in: Industrial pumps to suck water out of the roads serviced. Tick. Enough stocks of tents and mosquito nets. Tick. Mobile phones delivered to communities living along the upper catchment areas of the River Zambezi. Check. (irinnews.org)

ADDIS ABABA 15 October 2010 (IRIN) - As rural Africa experiences an increasingly moody climate which will erode resilience, drive up hunger and threaten economic growth, it is time countries got serious about development, participants at the seventh African Development Forum in Addis Ababa were told. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 14 October 2010 (IRIN) - With its coffers running at least US$1 billion short, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is looking to the private sector to fill the funding gap. (irinnews.org)

Zimbabwe police have arrested a youth leader from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party for allegedly undermining the authority of long ruling President Robert Mugabe, the party says.

Evergreen Line and United Africa Feeder Line have formed an alliance to extend Evergreen's service network in the Indian Ocean.