カテゴリー: Mauritius
Lai Ching-te abandons visit after Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar revoke overflight permission Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, has cancelled his trip to Eswatini, the democratic island’s only diplomatic ally in Africa, after his government said…
Reform UK leader flew to the Maldives for a day despite not having permit to visit nearby archipelagoNigel Farage has been accused of “performing Maga stunts” after claiming the British government stopped him from travelling to the Chagos Islands on a …
Unctad says many countries targeted with high tariff rates are unlikely to be a threat to USBusiness live – latest updatesThe UN’s trade and development arm, Unctad, is calling on Donald Trump to exempt the world’s poorest and smallest countries from “…
PM to claim if US rejects Mauritius’s claim to own the islands, Beijing will be drawn into the regional disputeKeir Starmer is to urge Donald Trump to recognise that a US rejection of Mauritius’s legal claim to own the Chagos Islands, including the str…
Dispute over archipelago in Indian Ocean involves neighbouring Maldives and UK historical claimUnder a glaring sky, Mauritian survey teams set off in two tender boats to measure Blenheim Reef on Sunday morning.A line of breakers marked the outer line o…
Fifty years after the UK forcibly deported them, five Chagossians have visited the disputed archipelago with Mauritius’s helpReturning to their birthplace after decades of enforced exile, five Chagossians leapt from a motor launch on to the palm-shaded…
Exclusive: Akshata Murty owns 5% of IMM, which used structure that could reduce taxes payable in India The wife of the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, is a shareholder in a restaurants business that funnelled investments through a letterbox company in the tax…
Government says it will carry out autopsies on all 40 animals and investigate spill from Japanese shipThousands of protesters demonstrated in the Mauritius capital Port Louis on Saturday, calling for an investigation into an oil spill from a Japanese s…
MV Wakashio has split in two and leaked 1,000 tonnes of oil into the water since it ran agroundSalvage crews were preparing to sink a Japanese-owned ship that ran aground off Mauritius, despite opposition from environmental campaigners.The MV Wakashio …
Grounded carrier has split in half and poor conditions make removal of ship’s remaining oil riskyInternational experts and thousands of local volunteers were making frantic efforts on Sunday to protect Mauritius’s pristine beaches and rich marine wildl…
Nations from New Zealand to Cuba closed borders promptly with strict quarantine rules, but the UK won’t admit its ‘serious mistake’Island nations have an advantage when it comes to stopping travellers importing disease, be it Covid or other infections….
Foreign Office-run trip thought to be first formal parliamentary visit to the disputed territoryThree MPs have made a secretive visit to the US military base on Diego Garcia and the Chagos Islands, it has emerged, in what is believed to be the first fo…