World

British government returns sovereignty of Chagos, including Diego Garcia, to Mauritius

Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth had a conversation with his counterpart Sir Keir Starmer on Thursday 3 October.

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Global IT outages hit airlines and businesses worldwide [Updated 14:19]

The disruption appears to stem from an issue with cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, industry experts said. Microsoft Windows is among its clients.

4 months ago

Starlink Officially Launches its Satellite Internet Service in Madagascar

Elon Musk’s internet satellite company Starlink has announced that its services are now available in Madagascar. Madagascar officially become the 11th Africa country to go launch Starlink services.

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Africa

Starlink Officially Launches its Satellite Internet Service in Madagascar

Elon Musk’s internet satellite company Starlink has announced that its services are now available in Madagascar. Madagascar officially become the 11th Africa country to go launch Starlink services.

4 months, 3 weeks ago

A boom in the number of millionaires expected in Africa in the coming decade

Mauritius, in particular, will record the highest increase, at 95%.

6 months, 4 weeks ago

PhoenixBev conquers Kenya

PhoenixBev has acquired 28.3% of African Originals Ltd (AOL) in Kenya.

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Telecommunications: planned expansion of MT in Africa

Ongoing investments in the expansion of the submarine fiber optic cable network.

1 year, 1 month ago

Henley Passport Power Score: The Mauritian passport provides access to 146 visa-free destinations

Mauritius is ranked the sixth richest country in Africa and its passport holders can access 146 visa-free destinations. This is according to a report by Henley & Partners, a leading international residency and citizenship consultancy, entitled Africa Wealth Report (AWR).

1 year, 7 months ago

Textile : Maurice et Madagascar se serrent les coudes pour développer le secteur

La Mauritius Export Association (MEXA) et le Groupement des entreprises franches et partenaires (GEFP) de Madagascar ont finalisé un plan d’action avec des objectifs définis et cinq domaines de collaboration afin d’accélérer le développement du secteur textile dans nos deux pays.

1 year, 7 months ago

Asia

Textile factory strike — Fayzal Ally Beegun: “Mauritius must put pressure on to defuse this …

Otherwise, this strike risks seriously impacting factories and orders in Mauritius.

1 year ago

Air Mauritius returns to Chennai, India, in April 2024

From April 12, 2024, Air Mauritius will resume flights to Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, India, with a weekly flight. The connection will be provided every Friday by an Airbus A330.

1 year ago

Four Mauritius-based funds with $7 bn in Adani stocks have history of wrong bets

Before they put about 90% of their $6.9 billion under management in the Adani empire, the funds -- Elara India Opportunities Fund, Cresta Fund, Albula Investment Fund and APMS Investment Fund -- held significant stakes in two companies whose founders fled India and have since been probed for money laundering, another that went bankrupt, and a fourth that was liquidated after sparring with the Ethiopian government.

1 year, 9 months ago

Mauritius-China Free Trade Agreement : plusieurs règlements promulgués à brève échéance en marge de l’accord …

Dans une perspective de la mise en œuvre des engagements de libéralisation tarifaire en marge de l’accord de libre-échange Maurice-Chine, plusieurs règlements seront promulgués bientôt. De même, d’autres mesures politiques et techniques seront prises en marge de l’accord commercial Maurice- Chine.

1 year, 11 months ago

Relation Maurice-Hong Kong : Un accord de non double imposition signé

C’est ce qui ressort d’un communiqué émis par le ministère des Finances. C’est le 14 septembre dernier que la République de Maurice et le Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China ont signé cet accord.

2 years ago

Contractor accuses L&T of fraud in World Bank-aided tsunami project

A Larsen & Toubro group entity, L&T Construction, Chennai, which is building the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, has been accused of perpetrating an alleged fraud by its consortium contractor, while implementing Indias World Bank-aided tsunami alert projects in two eastern states.

2 years ago

Australia & New Zealand

Air Mauritius reprend ses vols vers l’Australie

Après plus de deux ans, Air Mauritius a repris son service vers l’Australie. L’Airbus A330-900neo de la compagnie nationale a atterri à l’aéroport de Perth hier matin, le 2 novembre, après un voyage de six heures et 55 minutes depuis Maurice.

2 years ago

Koala rescued from Australia bushfire is reunited with hero grandma

A badly burned koala that was rescued crying and screaming from Australia's bushfires has been reunited with the heroic grandma who saved its life.

4 years, 12 months ago

Australia's A$50 note misspells responsibility

Australia's latest A$50 note comes with a big blunder hidden in the small print - a somewhat embarrassing typo.

5 years, 6 months ago

Attouchements sexuels: la fédération des jeux du Comonwealth ouvre une enquête

Le chef de la Fédération des Jeux du Commonwealth a lancé une enquête sur des informations selon lesquelles une athlète mauricienne aurait accusé le chef de mission du pays de l’avoir agressé sexuellement depuis son arrivée sur la Gold Coast. C’est ce qui a paru dans le site du journal britannique The Guardian à la mi-journée

6 years, 7 months ago

Barnaby Joyce: Australia PM bans ministers from sex with staff

Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull has said he will prohibit sex between ministers and their staff, after it was revealed his deputy had an affair with a former staffer.

6 years, 9 months ago

A drone has rescued two people from rough seas off the coast of Australia

By dropping a floatation device

6 years, 10 months ago

Europe

Global IT outages hit airlines and businesses worldwide [Updated 14:19]

The disruption appears to stem from an issue with cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, industry experts said. Microsoft Windows is among its clients.

4 months ago

Air Mauritius: direct flight from Mauritius to Gatwick from October 29

From Sunday on, the traveling public will be able to benefit from direct flights to London daily.

1 year ago

Russia seizes Europe's biggest nuclear plant in 'reckless' assault

Russian forces in Ukraine seized Europe's biggest nuclear power plant on Friday in what Washington called a reckless assault that risked catastrophe, although a blaze in a training building was extinguished and officials said the facility was now safe.

2 years, 8 months ago

Russia declares war on Ukraine

Russian forces have launched a military assault on neighbouring Ukraine, crossing its borders and bombing military targets near big cities.

2 years, 9 months ago

WHO chief scientist urges people not to panic over Omicron

'We need to be prepared and cautious, not panic,' WHO scientist says; Border controls only 'buy time'; Five U.S. states find cases of Omicron variant; BoE takes wait-and-see approach to raising rates

2 years, 11 months ago

La France place Maurice en zone ‘rouge écarlate’

La nouvelle est tombée il y a quelques instants en ce mercredi 1er décembre. Après avoir placé Maurice dans la zone rouge

2 years, 11 months ago

Indian Ocean

British government returns sovereignty of Chagos, including Diego Garcia, to Mauritius

Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth had a conversation with his counterpart Sir Keir Starmer on Thursday 3 October.

1 month, 2 weeks ago

India and Mauritius agreement on infrastructure in Agaléga will not be made public

Pravind Jugnauth: “The agreement between India and Mauritius on infrastructure in Agaléga will not be made public”

7 months ago

Transactions between India and Mauritius at preferential rates now possible

The Indian RuPay card services and the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) system allowing Mauritian and Indian tourists and visitors to make debit or credit card payments using their local Mauritian and Indian cards were jointly launched...

9 months, 1 week ago

Air Mauritius conduct 4 return flights to Rodrigues this Wednesday

After the passage of Cyclone Belal, activities resumed at SSR airport yesterday afternoon. The same goes for the national aviation company Air Mauritius. This Wednesday, January 17, Air Mauritius has planned four return flights to Rodrigues.

10 months, 1 week ago

Bad times for Air Mauritius aircraft: Air Mauritius flights departing from Reunion Island were also …

Several Air Mauritius flights had to be canceled yesterday due to technical problems.

10 months, 3 weeks ago

Indian Ocean – Realpolitik: The Chagos Deal compromised by the English hawks

The new Foreign Secretary, David Cameron, given as being Dead Against the return of Chagos under the control of Maurice Possible about-face from London after six rounds of negotiations with Port-Louis and the rent of the Diego-Garcia base estimated at Rs 120 billion, the equivalent of at least 25% of Padayachy's GDP

11 months, 2 weeks ago

Middle East

Saudi Arabia: electronic visa accessible to Mauritians

The Government took note that on October 17, the Ministry of Tourism of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia officially announced that Mauritius had been added to the list of countries whose citizens could apply for an e-visa online through an e-visa platform, before traveling or upon arrival in Saudi Arabia, through the visa offices of the Ministry of Immigration.

1 year ago

When a pilgrimage turns into a nightmare

After days of anguish in Israel, 15 of the 36 pilgrims from the St. Helene parish have returned home

1 year, 1 month ago

Iranian Missile System Shot Down Ukraine Flight, Probably By Mistake, Sources Say

U.S. officials are confident Iran shot down a Ukrainian jetliner in the hours after the Iranian missile attack on U.S. targets earlier this week, CBS News has learned. The Ukrainian International Airlines plane crashed Wednesday soon after takeoff from Tehran's airport, killing all 176 people on board.

4 years, 10 months ago

Iran begins reconnecting internet after shutdown over protests

Iran on Thursday began restoring internet access in the capital Tehran and a number of provinces, local news agencies and residents said, after a days-long nationwide shutdown meant to help stifle unrest over fuel price hikes.

4 years, 12 months ago

Attack on mosque in Egypt's Sinai kills at least 235 in deadliest militant strike

At least 235 people were killed and another 109 injured in an attack on a Sufi mosque in Egypt's North Sinai region on Friday, Egyptian state-run media reported, in what appears to be the deadliest terror attack on Egyptian soil.

6 years, 12 months ago

Iran-Iraq Earthquake Kills More Than 300

A huge rescue effort is under way after a powerful earthquake struck Iran's mountainous border with Iraq, killing more than 400 people and injuring more than 7,000.

7 years ago

North America

Chris Cooter: «Canada now offers a brand new joint degree with the UoM»

We got hold of Canadian Ambassador to Mauritius Chris Cooter while he was on a visit to the island to present his credentials to the president of the republic.

2 years, 8 months ago

Oil Spirals Below Zero in ‘Devastating Day’ for Global Industry

The day started like any other gloomy Monday in the oil market’s worst crisis in a generation.

4 years, 7 months ago

Gunman Kills 16 In Rampage, Deadliest In Canadian History

A gunman killed at least 16 people, including one Mountie, during a weekend shooting rampage in small-town Nova Scotia, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.

4 years, 7 months ago

Des offres d’emplois au Québec pour les Mauriciens

Travailler au Canada, cela vous tente? Le Ministere du Travail, des Resources Humaines et du Dévélopement a émis un communiqué en ce sens.

4 years, 8 months ago

Elon Musk calls Thai cave rescue diver Vern Unsworth a 'pedo' on Twitter

Cave explorer Vern Unsworth said Musk's mini-submarine device was a "PR stunt."

6 years, 4 months ago

Remington Is Planning to File for Bankruptcy

For two centuries, it has been a totem of America’s gun culture -- a name emblazoned on frontier flintlocks and U.S. Army .45s.

6 years, 9 months ago

Pacific Ocean

Chagos : Les Maldives déboutées face à Maurice devant la Chambre Spéciale du Tribunal international …

Les Maldives déboutées face à Maurice devant la Chambre Spéciale du Tribunal international des Droits de la Mer. Les cinq exceptions preliminary objections des Maldives contre les revendications de Maurice rejetées.

3 years, 9 months ago

Hawaii alert: Employee who sent missile warning reassigned

The unnamed employee who mistakenly sent a missile alert which caused panic in the US state of Hawaii on Saturday has been temporarily reassigned to other duties, a US official has said.

6 years, 10 months ago

South America

Central Mexico earthquake kills more than 140, topples buildings

Rescuers combed through rubble Tuesday after a powerful earthquake killed scores and collapsed buildings in Mexico City and surrounding states on the anniversary of a devastating earthquake decades ago.

7 years, 2 months ago

Venezuela hunts rogue police attacker, Maduro foes smell rat

The Venezuelan government hunted on Wednesday for a rogue policemen who attacked key installations by helicopter, but critics of President Nicolas Maduro suspected the raid may have been manipulated to justify repression.

7 years, 4 months ago

Venezuela's 100-bolivar note withdrawal causes chaos

Venezuela's highest denomination banknote has ceased to be legal tender, in a move that has caused cash chaos and long queues at banks this week.

7 years, 11 months ago

Brazil Chapecoense football team in Colombia air disaster

A plane carrying 81 people, including a top Brazilian football team, has crashed on its approach to the city of Medellin in Colombia.

7 years, 11 months ago

Haiti death toll from Hurricane Matthew passes 1,000

From the air, the path left by the power and fury of Hurricane Matthew is clearly visible. Trees stripped of foliage, scattered like matchsticks on the hilltops. Homes shredded bare, roofs blown away. Around what is left of nearly every house in the hills and on the coastline, personal belongings and debris scattered like confetti.

8 years, 1 month ago

Puerto Rico: Huge blackout after power plant fire

A big fire at a power plant has left 1.5 million people without electricity in the US territory of Puerto Rico.

8 years, 2 months ago