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Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Rwanda Seychelles Somalia South Sudan Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Demographics Of East Africa People at the Mogadishu beach. Country Office Website Travel Advice. The Mauritian constitution makes no mention of an official language. [30] The swift conquest of Mauritius was fictionalised in the novel The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1977. [58], During World War II, conditions were hard in the country; the prices of commodities doubled but workers' salaries increased only by 10 to 20 percent. The arrival of humans saw the introduction of invasive alien species, the rapid destruction of habitat and the loss of much of the endemic flora and fauna. On 12 March 1992, twenty-four years after independence, Mauritius was proclaimed a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations. Many species are endemic to the island. [153][154] Mauritius is a multiethnic society, drawn from Indian, African, Chinese and European (mostly French) origin. The power struggle between Brenger and Jugnauth peaked in March 1983. As early as 1984, there was discontent. [189], According to the Financial Services Commission, financial and insurance activities contributed to 11.1% of the country's GDP in 2018. Streams and rivers speckle the island, many formed in the cracks created by lava flows. He named the island "Ilha do Cisne" ("Island of the Swan"). Mauritius has a single first-order administrative division, the Outer Islands of Mauritius (French: les parses de Maurice), which consists of the islands of Mauritius and several outlying islands. Mauritius is also the source of the Mauritius "Post Office" stamps, among the rarest postage stamps in the world, last sold for $4million, and considered "the greatest item in all philately" by some. The information and communications technology (ICT) sector has contributed to 5.7% of its GDP in 2016.[203]. The tertiary education sector includes universities and other technical institutions in Mauritius. The overall rule of law is well respected in Mauritius . In 1991, a master plan for education failed to get national support and contributed to the government's downfall. Mauritius is also connected to global Internet infrastructure via multiple optical fibre submarine communications cables, including the Lower Indian Ocean Network (LION) cable, the MauritiusRodrigues Submarine Cable, and the South Africa Far East (SAFE) cable. Later the island became a French colony and was renamed Isle de France. [73] The Creole gang then proceeded to the coastal historic village of Mahbourg to assault the Indo-Mauritian spectators who were watching a Hindustani movie at Cinma Odon. [185][186][187], Mauritius has a high-income economy, according to the World Bank in 2019. Relations with India are very strong for both historical and commercial reasons. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Agalga and St. In 2019, the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion ordering the UK to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, and in 2021, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea ruled in support of this, saying that the UK has "no sovereignty over the Chagos Islands".[21]. [23] The World Bank's 2019 Ease of Doing Business Index ranks Mauritius 13th worldwide out of 190 economies in terms of ease of doing business. [128], The country is home to some of the world's rarest plants and animals, but human habitation and the introduction of non-native species have threatened its indigenous flora and fauna. The 1920s saw the rise of a "retrocessionism" movement, which favoured the retrocession of Mauritius to France. [116] A co-management treaty was reached by France and Mauritius in 2010 but has not been ratified. Popular hawker meals include a wrap called dholl puri, rice-based biryani and gteau piment.[208]. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. The National Assembly is Mauritius's unicameral legislature, which was called the Legislative Assembly until 1992, when the country became a republic. Styles and forms introduced by Dutch, French, and British settlers from the seventeenth century onward, mixed with influences from India and East Africa, resulted in a unique hybrid architecture of international historic, social, and artistic significance. The coat of arms of Mauritius was adopted in 1906, consisting of a Sambur deer and the extinct dodo, which has currently been a symbol of national identity since independence. Mauritian cuisine is a combination of Indian, Creole, French and Chinese, with many dishes unique to the island. [14][15] In 1507, Portuguese sailors visited the uninhabited island. Horseracing, which dates from 1812 when the Champ de Mars Racecourse was inaugurated, remains popular. [139], Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth declared an environmental state of emergency after the 25 July 2020 MV Wakashio oil spill. [33] Portuguese sailors had brought these monkeys to the island from their native habitat in Southeast Asia, prior to Dutch rule. Further plans are in development by the government. [50], The 1910s were a period of political agitation. In keeping with the island's literary culture the prize alternates on a yearly basis between English-speaking and French-speaking writers. [182], Mauritius has no exploitable fossil fuel reserves and so relies on petroleum products to meet most of its energy requirements. [49], There was also dissatisfaction in the education sector. ", "Communiqu- Free Education in Tertiary Education Institutions", "Global Innovation Index | What is the future of innovation-driven growth? The first historical evidence of the existence of the island now known as Mauritius is on a map produced by the Italian cartographer Alberto Cantino in 1502 on which Mauritius bore the name Dina Arobi. [49], In December 1995, Navin Ramgoolam was elected as PM of the LabourMMM alliance. Some went to England to become pilots and ground staff in the Royal Air Force. The Labour-CAM coalition won only 28 seats out of 62. Mauritius claims sovereignty over Tromelin island, though it is registered as a part of France. Outline Map Key Facts Flag Mauritius occupies a total area of 2,040 sq. Mauritius is an island state of about 1.25 million people (2021) located off the southeast coast of Africa, neighboring the French island of La Reunion. [160] Public holidays of religious origins are the Hindu festivals of Maha Shivaratri, Ougadi, Thaipoosam Cavadee, Ganesh Chaturthi, and Diwali; the Christian festivals of Assumption and Christmas; and the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr. The 2018 Ibrahim Index of African Governance ranked Mauritius first in good governance. This article is about the African island nation in the Indian Ocean. Mauritian investors are gradually entering African markets, notably Madagascar, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Well yes, mauritian IS considered as an african country, a part of africa, a member of SADC, COMESA which pretty much says it all 16 wanttotradebrains 2 yr. ago Thank you for the response. [174] As of January 2017, the government has introduced changes to the education system with the Nine-Year Continuous Basic Education programme, which abolished the Certificate of Primary Education (CPE). 3. It has also been extending its Middle East outreach with the setting up of an embassy in Saudi Arabia[149] whose Ambassador also doubles as the country's ambassador to Bahrain.[150]. The country hosted the second (1985), fifth (2003) and tenth editions (2019) of the Indian Ocean Island Games. Mauritius has a single-structured judicial system consisting of two tiers, the Supreme Court and subordinate courts. The riot was initiated by the murder of Police Constable Beesoo in his vehicle by a Creole gang. Mauritius ranked second in an air quality index released by the World Health Organization in 2011. [27][28] In 1507, Portuguese sailors visited the uninhabited island. Many Mauritians volunteered to fight in Europe against the Germans and in Mesopotamia against the Turks. The Judicial Committee may also grant special leave to appeal from the decision of any court in any civil or criminal matter as per section 81(5) of the Constitution.[151]. Mauritius has a multi-party system. The 1963 election was won by the Labour Party and its allies. The island of Mauritius was uninhabited before its first recorded visit by Portuguese sailors in the beginning of the 16th century. They are guest edited by Nanjala Nyabola. [1] The AU was the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), and AU membership was open to all OAU member states. Despite its extinction, the dodo remains. A Constitutional Review Conference was held in London in 1961, and a programme of further constitutional advance was established. [209] There are 14 annual public holidays in Mauritius with New Year celebrated over two days if it falls on a weekend. Ratsitatane, nephew of King Radama of Madagascar, was brought to Mauritius as a political prisoner. The education structure consists of two to three years of pre-primary school, six years of primary schooling leading to the Primary School Achievement Certificate, five years of secondary education leading to the School Certificate, and two years of higher secondary ending with the Higher School Certificate. Locally made French pastry and bread are sold in most localities. The line starts from Port Louis and goes to Curepipe. The Mauritian currency features the Latin, Tamil and Devanagari scripts. It's a clich, but Mauritius is a tropical island paradise. All of the islands forming part of the French colonial territory of Isle de France (as Mauritius was then known) were ceded to the British in 1810 under the Act of Capitulation signed between the two powers. [118][119] In 2016, Britain extended the lease to the US till 2036. [124][125], Mauritius considers the territorial sea of the Chagos Archipelago and Tromelin island as part of its exclusive economic zone. Rising land values are pitted against the cultural value of historic structures in Mauritius, while the prohibitive costs of maintenance and the steady decline in traditional building skills make it harder to invest in preservation. Planning a travel to Mauritius? The island nation is located in the intersection of the African continent and the Asian continent and has a fusion of different languages, religions, and cultures. Raoul Rivet, the editor of Le Mauricien newspaper, campaigned for a revision of the constitution that would give the emerging middle class a greater role in the running of the country. The Mascarene Islands were named after Pedro Mascarenhas, Viceroy of Portuguese India, after his visit to the islands in 1512. Mauritius is located in the Southern Africa region at latitude -20.348404 and longitude 57.552152 and is part of the African continent. The islands were formally established as an overseas territory of the United Kingdom on 8 November 1965. Together with Saint Brandon, Runion, and Rodrigues, the island is part of the Mascarene Islands. [31] In early 1729, Indians from Pondicherry, India, arrived in Mauritius aboard the vessel La Sirne. Mauritius is the most densely populated country in Africa and the 17th most densely populated country in the world. Mauritius has a serious traffic problem due to the high number of road users, particularly car drivers. In particular, the extinction of the flightless dodo bird, a species unique to Maurtitius, has become a representative example of human-driven extinction. The Dutch East India Company brought them to cut down ebony trees and to work in the new tobacco and sugar cane plantations. This became known as the 1911 Curepipe riots. O-Level and A-Level Exams are organised in public and government subsidised private schools in English by Cambridge International Examinations while paid private schools mostly follow the French Baccalaureate model. The 1MR troops were further aggrieved at the segregation they were subject to, unequal pay, physically demanding training, and were fearful of the Japanese soldiers, all these factors culminated in the 1MR mutinying. In fact, the 19141918 war was a period of great prosperity, due to a boom in sugar prices. That period saw growth in the EPZ (Export Processing Zone) sector. Between 1960 and 1980, the historic homes of the island's high grounds, known locally as campagnes, disappeared at alarming rates. An act of Parliament was passed on 16 December 1975 to extend the right to vote to 18-year-olds. During the debate, the Mauritian Prime Minister described the expulsion of Chagossians as "a crime against humanity". [166] The Creole languages which are spoken in different islands of the country are more or less similar: Mauritian Creole, Rodriguan creole, Agalega creole and Chagossian creole are spoken by people from the islands of Mauritius, Rodrigues, Agalga and Chagos. However, it was tainted by the Ratsitatane episode. However, at the 1926 elections, Dunputh Lallah and Rajcoomar Gujadhur became the first Indo-Mauritians to be elected to the Legislative Council. In the same year, 1911, the first public cinema shows took place in Curepipe, and, in the same town, a stone building was erected to house the Royal College. They worked on sugar estates, factories, in transport and on construction sites. The movement rapidly collapsed because none of the candidates who wanted Mauritius to be given back to France were elected in the 1921 elections. Secondary schools have "college" as part of their title. There's no official dialect in Mauritius, but most locals speak Creole or Kreol, an estimated 86.5 percent to be exact. The political party or alliance which has the second largest group of representatives forms the Official Opposition and its leader is normally nominated by the President of the Republic as the Leader of the Opposition. [176], The adult literacy rate was estimated at 92.7% in 2015. As part of the deportation, British officials have been accused of ordering the island's dog population of 1,000 to be gassed. [54][55] Labour Day was celebrated for the first time in 1938. In 1959, Harold Macmillan had made his famous "Wind of Change Speech" in which he acknowledged that the best option for Britain was to give complete independence to its colonies. Through the Newspapers and Periodicals Amendment Act, the government tried to make every newspaper provide a bank guarantee of half a million rupees. 0.7% reported themselves as non-religious and 0.1% did not answer. For most of the period, annual growth has been roughly 4%. 116 states voted in favour of the resolution, 55 abstained and only Australia, Hungary, Israel and Maldives supported the UK and US. [43] He was beheaded at Plaine Verte on 15 April 1822, and his head was displayed as a deterrent against possible slave rebellions. The following ancestral languages, also spoken in Mauritius, have received official recognition by acts of parliament: Bhojpuri,[167] Chinese,[168] Hindi,[169] Marathi,[170] Tamil,[171] Telugu[172] and Urdu. In late 1943, the 1st Battalion of the Mauritius Regiment (1MR) was sent to Madagascar for training, and in their place a battalion of the King's African Rifles (KAR) was stationed in Mauritius. [97], On 21 January 2017, Sir Anerood Jugnauth announced his resignation and that his son and Finance Minister Pravind Jugnauth would assume the office of prime minister. [183], Mauritius has one of the largest exclusive economic zones in the world, and in 2012 the government announced its intention to develop the marine economy. In 2008, the Privy Council (United Kingdom) judgment (Article 71) confirmed Raphal Fishing Company as the holder of a Permanent Grant of the thirteen islands mentioned in the 1901 Deed (transcribed in Vol TB25 No 342) subject to the conditions therein referred to;[115], The twin islands of Agalga are located some 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) to the north of Mauritius. Mahbourg police recorded nearly 100 complaints of assaults on Indo-Mauritians. [108][109] The island is surrounded by more than 150km (100mi) of white sandy beaches, and the lagoons are protected from the open sea by the world's third-largest coral reef, which surrounds the island. Observers study the Human Development Index (HDI). [175], The O-Level and A-Level examinations are carried out by the University of Cambridge through University of Cambridge International Examinations in collaboration with the MES. [163] English and French are generally considered to be de facto national and common languages of Mauritius, as they are the languages of government administration, courts, and business. Constitutional conferences were held in London in 1955 and 1957, and the ministerial system was introduced. It is the world's 14th most-populous country, accounting for 1.3% of the global population. Other festivals such as Holi, Raksha Bandhan, Durga Puja,[210] Pre Laval Pilgrimage also enrich the cultural landscape of Mauritius. Both units are composed of police officers on lengthy rotations to those services. In 1886, Governor John Pope Hennessy nominated Gnanadicarayen Arlanda as the first ever Indo-Mauritian member of the ruling council despite the sugar oligarchy's preference for rival Indo-Mauritian Emile Sandapa. In 1969, the opposition party, Mauritian Militant Movement (MMM), was founded, led by Paul Brenger. There are some isolated mountains, Corps de Garde, Le Morne Brabant, and several offshore islands, with remnants of coastal and mainland diversity. [129] The resolution also has immediate practical consequences: the UN, its specialised agencies, and all other international organisations are now bound, as a matter of UN law, to support the decolonisation of Mauritius even if the UK claim that it has no doubt about its sovereignty. Egypt is North Africa's largest country and Africa's third-largest by population, with 100.4 million people or 7.7% of the continent's population. This Royal Commission recommended several measures that would affect the lives of Indian labourers during the next fifty years. [88] The MSM-Labour-PMSD coalition was victorious at the August 1983 elections, resulting in Anerood Jugnauth as PM and Gatan Duval as Deputy PM. The average wealth per capita in Mauritius is US$30,000 per person, while South Africa was in second place with US$11,000. Eventually establishing a succession of short-lived Dutch settlements over the next 120 years, to exploit the local ebony forests and establish sugar production, through imported sugar cane plants from Java and over three hundred Malagasy slaves,[17] before abandoning their efforts in 1710. [202] Another airport is the Sir Gatan Duval Airport in Rodrigues. 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[124] Due to its volcanic origin, age, isolation, and unique terrain, Mauritius is home to a diversity of flora and fauna not usually found in such a small area. The politics of Mauritius take place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, in which the President is the head of state and the Prime Minister is the head of government, assisted by a Council of Ministers. Algeria has been the largest country in Africa and the Arab world since the division of Sudan in 2011. However, the labourers of Belle Vue Harel Sugar Estate went on strike on 27 September 1943. Hover over a tile for details. October 2018, saw the authorisation of the cull of 20% of the fruit bat population, amounting to 13,000 of the estimated 65,000 fruit bats remaining, although their status had already reverted to Endangered due to the previous years' culls. There is a local variant of Persian falooda, locally known as alouda, which is a cold beverage made with milk, basil seeds, and agar-agar jelly. The UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC), which monitors member states' compliance with the International Covenant on Political and Civil Rights (ICPCR), has criticised the country's Best Loser System following a complaint by a local youth and trade union movement. Annual rainfall ranges from 900mm (35in) on the coast to 1,500mm (59in) on the central plateau. The first phase has begun since 2020 and the second phase has been completed in 2021. [24] Owing to its geographic location and centuries of colonialism, the people of Mauritius are highly diverse in ethnicity, culture, language and faith. 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