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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
YOUNG Zimbabwean swimmer James Lawson set a new African Junior record in the boys 100m breaststroke at the 8th Junior African Swimming Championships which ended on Sunday in Port Louis, Mauritius.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Tanzania's Shaaban Ibrahim made flying start to the Africa Master Junior Tennis Championship title chase after defeating Thomas Earl of Mauritius by two straight sets in Port Louis courts yesterday.
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 08/30/2009
Six countries of the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) block, namely Zimbabwe, Zambia, Comoros, Madagascar and Seychelles together with Mauritius have signed the Interim Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Commission (EC). Speaking at the ceremony on Saturday in Le Meridien hotel, 15 km from Port Louis, Mauritian Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Finance [...]
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
Kenya on Sunday secured six medals to take its tally to 16 and finish third behind winners South Africa and Nigeria as the curtains came down on the ninth Africa Junior Championships in Port Louis, Mauritius.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
Kenya's medal hunt continued on the third day of the Ninth Africa Junior Championship, in Port Louis, Mauritius, with John Mwangangi and Kennedy Kithuka winning silver and bronze in the men's 5,000m race.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
Kenya has secured a third gold on the second day of the Ninth Africa Junior Championship in Port Louis, Mauritius.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/27/2009
The Botswana team at the 16th African regional boxing championships in Port Louis, Mauritius still hopes of bringing home a gold medal after Bathusi Mogajane qualified for the semi-finals in the 48kg category on Tuesday.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/21/2009
The retired Catholic archbishop of Port Louis, Cardinal Jean Margéot, a highly respected figure in Mauritius, died on Friday aged 93.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
The Botswana Boxing Association (BoBA) has sent an advance team of three boxers to the 16th Africa regional championship to be held in Port Louis, Mauritius later this month.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
London - Four British women made history Tuesday by becoming the first all-female team to row across the Indian Ocean, spending 79 days at sea. The group, which calls itself the Ocean Angels, reached the finishing line in Port Louis, Mauritius, early...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
A Commonwealth human rights workshop for the Mauritius police and prison officials was launched in Port Louis, Mauritius, on 22 June 2009, with a call to strengthen a culture of human rights in both services through awareness raising and adherence to international human rights standards.
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Geostrategy (Free subscription) | 04/02/2009
PORT LOUIS, March 31 (Reuters) Mauritius cut its 2009 economic growth forecast to 2.5 percent, bringing it more in line with predictions by the International Monetary Fund and the Indian Ocean island's central bank. The government had previously been predicting 4 percent growth but analysts said the forecast looked too high given the likely fallout from the global economic slowdown on the
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 03/03/2009
The Government of Mauritius has decided to construct a bus lane from the center of the country to the outskirts of the capital Port Louis in order to relieve road congestion especially at peak hours in the mornings and evenings. A release from the Ministry of Public Infrastructure on Tuesday said already there are 250,000 registered [...]
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
The Mauritius Police Force will be soon equipped with one of the most sophisticated helicopters, the Dhruv, from India under a credit line of $75 million which the government of India has extended to Mauritius. The Memorandum of Understanding has been signed in Port Louis on Sunday between the Permanent Secretary of the Prime Minister’s office, [...]
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 02/28/2009
We were in Mauritius today. For anyone who's not sure and I had absolutely no idea when I first saw the itinerary change Mauritius is an island off the coast of Madagascar and is basically half way between South Africa and India. I had some mixed feelings about my experience in Mauritius but overall the country is beautiful and I'm very glad we got to go. Mostly I guess I just wish we had mor