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<title>OneWorld Africa - Mauritius</title>
<description>Mauritius</description>
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<title>Activists Arrested Near Diego Garcia</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/82882</link>
<description>Two British human rights campaigners have been arrested at sea off Diego Garcia - the Indian Ocean island that Britain has leased to the U.S. for controversial military activity.  
+ Reports from The People's Navy</description>
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<title>Mauritius Afrikan ykkönen hyvässä hallinnossa</title>
<link>http://fi.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/80476</link>
<description>Mauritius on kärkisijalla Mo Ibrahim -säätiön uudessa hyvä hallinto -indeksissä. Perässä luokituksessa tulevat Seychellit, Botswana, Kap Verde ja Etelä-Afrikka. Huonoimman luokituksen sai Somalia.</description>
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<title>Anger As Britain Again Defies Islanders Over U.S. Base</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/79063</link>
<description>A leader of the Chagossian community - expelled from their Indian Ocean island home by Britain to allow development of a U.S. nuclear base - has attacked the UK government's decision to appeal against the third High Court ruling in their favour as “heartless and callous.”  
+ Don't Appeal, UK Urged 
+ Diega Garcia background 
+ Islanders fight 'the final round'</description>
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<title>Don't Appeal, UK Urged After Losing U.S. Base Case</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/149555/1/</link>
<description>The UK Chagos Support Association has welcomed today's court ruling against the British government's &quot;secret and illegal&quot; attempt to banish Chagossians to make way for a U.S. nuclear base and urged London not to waste yet more taxpayers' money on another appeal. 
+ Chagos Islanders win right to return-British court rules in their favour 
+ Diego Garcia backgrounder</description>
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<title>Chagos Islanders Fight 'The Final Round'</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/146215/1/</link>
<description>The British Government’s bid to reverse a High Court ruling in favour of Indian Ocean islanders evicted from their homes 40 years ago to make way for a U.S. nuclear base is in its final day.</description>
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<title>Exiled Chagos Islanders get brief taste of their Paradise Lost </title>
<link>http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/71212</link>
<description>Nearly 100 exiles from the Chagos islands will pay a brief visit to their homelands on Thursday, 40 years after their illegal removal by the British Government to make way for a US military base on the main island, Diego Garcia.</description>
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<title>Mauritius: Reforming the sugar cane industry</title>
<link>http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/127845/1/</link>
<description>L.J.C. Autrey, S. Ramasamy and K.F. Ng Kee Kwong describe the achievements in the process of introducing precision farming technologies in Mauritius, and the challenges ahead.</description>
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<title>Small islands, new technologies and globalisation</title>
<link>http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/126859/1/</link>
<description>This paper sets out to locate Mauritian SMEs in the present context of global competition and more particularly to identify the extent to which they have adopted ICTs as a tool to meet the challenges which they now face.</description>
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<title>EU:n sokeripäätös kova kolaus Mauritiukselle</title>
<link>http://fi.oneworld.net/article/view/120188/1/</link>
<description>Euroopan unionin päätös leikata raakasokerin tuottajahintoja on kova kolaus Intian valtameressä sijaitsevalle Mauritiukselle, joka on ansainnut sokerilla 17 prosenttia vientituloistaan. EU:ta on arvosteltu liian kovien hintojen maksamisesta omille ja entisten siirtomaiden sokerintuottajille, ja se aikoo nyt leikata hintoja 39 prosenttia tulevien neljän vuoden aikana.</description>
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<title>Digital television introduced to Africa, Mauritius and Senegal </title>
<link>http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/117976/1/</link>
<description>Five years ago the idea of digital television in Africa would have seemed absurd. Now two countries have announced their intention to offer digital television. Senegal seems to have been first into the game, launching a pilot at the end of last year with 200 trial subscribers.</description>
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<title>Mauritius Launches New Government Portal</title>
<link>http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/111530/1/</link>
<description>Mauritius Prime Minister Paul Raymond Bernger today inaugurates the Government Online Centre and the new Government Portal of the country.</description>
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<title>Mauritius to host ICT meet on Africa</title>
<link>http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/58269</link>
<description>The African Computing and Telecommunications Summit will be held in Mauritius from 7-9 September 2004. ACT 2004 aims to help build partnerships in mainstreaming Africa’s ICT sector.</description>
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<title>Govt to impose sanctions on radio station</title>
<link>http://africa.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/57789</link>
<description>A recent decision by the government of Mauritius to investigate the possibility of instituting sanctions against private radio stations has raised concern among media freedom groups.</description>
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<title>Mauritius wants to become cyber island paradise</title>
<link>http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/50513</link>
<description>First came California's Silicon Valley, then India took the honours. Next, if all goes according to plan, the tiny Indian Ocean nation of Mauritius hopes to lead the way in Africa, by transforming itself into a &quot;cyber island&quot;.</description>
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<title>Mauritius seeks to become a global cyber island paradise</title>
<link>http://www.digitalopportunity.org/link/gotolink/addhit/50417</link>
<description>First came California's Silicon Valley, then India took the honours. Next, if all goes according to plan, the tiny Indian Ocean nation of Mauritius hopes to lead the way in Africa, by transforming itself into a &quot;cyber island.&quot;</description>
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