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Le Mauricien is a French -language newspaper, based and distributed in Mauritius. The newspaper, founded in 1908, is released daily and is one of the most read in Mauritius. The publishers, Le Mauricien Ltd., also publish Week-End, Week-End Scope and Turf Magazine. [ 1] It is an independent newspaper. [citation needed]
List of newspapers in Mauritius www This is a list of local newspapers in Mauritius in alphabetical order.
Mauritius, [ a ] officially the Republic of Mauritius, [ b ] is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about 2,000 kilometres (1,100 nautical miles) off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Agaléga, and St. Brandon (Cargados Carajos shoals). [ 13 ][ 14 ] The islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues ...
The known and sometimes formally documented history of Mauritius begins with its possible discovery by Austronesians (not documented) under the Austronesian expansion from pre-Han Taiwan, circa 1500 to 1000 BC, and then by Arabs, (documented on Portuguese maps), followed by Portuguese and its appearance on European maps in the early 16th century. Mauritius was successively colonized by the ...
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Same-sex sexual relations were previously prohibited in Mauritius under a colonial-era law. [1] [2] This law stipulated a penalty of five years' imprisonment for consensual, private sexual relations between people of the same sex.
Dev Virahsawmy (16 March 1942 [1] – 7 November 2023) was a Mauritian politician, playwright, poet and advocate of the Mauritian Creole language. Though he wrote easily in both French and English, Virahsawmy was most renowned for his efforts to popularise the use of Creole.
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