Mauritius News

News On Sunday , Port-Louis, Mauritius reports Mahatma Gandhi was a stamp collector.

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, author of 'poetic adventure' Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, whose vast world travels form the poetic and descriptive backdrop for his body of work, yesterday won the Nobel Prize for ...

Former Ambassadors = Anti-Obama by J. Grant Swank, Jr. Over one hundred former American ambassadors endorse John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Singapore, Oct 8: Mauritius Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam will make an official visit to Singapore from today, and join some 600 Indian delegates at the Global Indian Diaspora conference over the ...

Mauritius gov't sets up fund to bridge digital divide By: Patrick Hilbert - IDG New A Authorities hope US$2.5 million fund will help provide poor with better Internet access PORT LOUIS, MAURITIUS - The ...

More than 100 former American ambassadors are endorsing John McCain and Sarah Palin for president and vice president.

T HE on-going 180th session of the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation enters critical stage this week, with the thematic debate on protecting indigenous and ...

Mauritian President Anerood Jugnauth, Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam and other senior government officials joined the Chinese community in the Indian Ocean island country to celebrate the 59th ...

LOUIS: Mauritius President Sir Anerood Jugnauth, the ceremonial head of state, was re-elected Friday for a five-year term.

Immigration officials in Zimbabwe said on Wednesday th ey had deported 30 foreign nationals suspected of smuggling diamonds from the co u ntry.

When Anand Satyanand came calling on India this week, it marked a rare chance to see history visibly come full circle.

Investors on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange Friday placed 12.8 billion naira on 507.56 million shares in 7,295 deals.

The flight from Paris took about 10.5 hours. It arrived in Mauritius at about 6AM.

Port Louis The Chagos Refugees Group in Mauritius on Sunday organised a mini cultural fair at the Chagossian Centre in Pointe-aux-Sables 7 km from the capital Port Louis in order to select, for the first time, ...

Families on the outskirts of Cairo were in tears on Saturd ay after massive rocks from the towering Muqattam hills fell upon their homes, l e aving at least 24 people dead with fears of others in the rubble.

Barely two weeks to the harvesting of crops in Nigeria's north eastern Borno State, swarms of Quelea birds have destroyed 364 hectares o f millet and sorghum farms in three local government areas of the state.

The former Malian minister of rural development, Mr. Modi bo Tiemoko Traore, was appointed general assistant manager in charge of th e department of agriculture and consumers' protection of the United Nations' ...

Ghana's economy is vulnerabl e and open to the vagaries of external factors despite systematic growth since 2001, a state-owned research in s titution said on Monday.

A number of African countries attending the climate talks here have demanded billions in compensation from rich countries for the impacts o f global warming.

Mauritius Diary by Anvar Alikhan Sega Is Sweet We tend to think of Mauritius as an extension of the Indian subcontinent.