Mauritius: Authorities award 20 scholarships to African students

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritius has awarded 20 scholarships, at tertiary level, to African students from Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Namibia in 2013. An official communiqué published Saturday morning said the aim of the … Read More

Warning issued for tropical cyclone in Mauritius

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritius Meteorological Service Tuesday issued a cyclone warning class I for the country, as tropical cyclone Bejisa approaches the island. Bejisa, centred in latitude 13.2 degrees south and longitude 53.3 degrees east, is about 900 … Read More

Mauritius takes health screening, counselling to the people

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Photo: http://semredcrossyouth.org PANA Quatre Bornes, Mauritius – On Saturday, the Mauritian Health Ministry launched the ‘Health Screening and Counselling services at your doorstep Programme’, taking screening and counselling services further closer to the population, PANA reported from here. Under the … Read More

Mauritius gets interest-free loan, grant from China

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 Xavier-Luc Duval, Finance Minister PANA Port-Louis, Mauritius – China has given an interest-free loan of RMB Yuan 50 million (US$8 million) and a grant of RMB Yuan 1.05 million (US$162,440) to fund development projects in Mauritius, the Finance Ministry in … Read More

Mauritius offers scholarships to 18 deserving African students

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Rajkeswur Purryag, president of Mauritius By PANA Port-Louis, Mauritius – The Mauritian government has offered scholarships to 18 deserving students to study in tertiary institutions in Indian Ocean Island nation. Quoting official sources, PANA reported that the 18 successful candidates … Read More

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