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Twenty years for the woman who bankrolled a Rs 1.5 billion heroin run
Victoria Hospital's radiotherapy unit shut down over safety failures. Mali's junta leader was the assassination target all along. Middle East war is undoing Africa's best economic run in a decade, IMF says.
Read more →Anti-corruption officers raid the charity that flies sick Mauritians abroad
Ants found in a newborn's incubator. The health minister says he's taking it 'very seriously.'. Virus-hit cruise ship at Cape Verde: patients evacuated as Canary Islands refuse to let it dock. Oil prices swung sharply on US-Iran peace hopes — then reality set in.
Read more →Rs 2 billion lost and a decade of mismanagement: the state is walking away from Casinos de Maurice
Arianne Navarre-Marie, daughter of Chagossians, sworn in as Deputy PM. Four years in prison for calling the president a racist. Russia kills 26 in Ukraine, then declares a ceasefire.
Read more →Dialysis patients are buying their own medicine as hospitals run dry
One in five Mauritians smokes, and tobacco lobbyists are steering health policy. Senegal's president turns on his own prime minister in a very public warning. Car ploughs into a shopping crowd in Leipzig, two killed.
Read more →Mauritius climbs nine places in the global press freedom index
What does it take to lose 30 metres of beach in days? Kenya's floods kill 18 and push 54,000 households from their homes. Three dead in suspected hantavirus outbreak on an Atlantic cruise ship.
Read more →Chikungunya reaches the west coast as leptospirosis kills a fifth person
Saudi Arabia cancels Hajj visas for under-15s, leaving five Mauritian teenagers stranded. Mali opens a treason investigation into its own army after a week of catastrophic defeats. Trump calls his own Navy 'pirates' as the Iran standoff enters its ninth week.
Read more →Private sector workers are getting legal cover for flooding days
A fifth person dies of leptospirosis as chikungunya spreads west. Uganda sentences kindergarten killer to death. Trump declares the Iran war over to avoid a Congress vote.
Read more →Laura Travady walks back through the crime scene as a second death enters the frame
Air Mauritius flights to Asia flying clear of the Middle East crisis, for now. Africa takes stock of what US aid cuts actually cost it. Washington wants a coalition to reopen Hormuz as shipping stalls.
Read more →Ras Natty Baby comes home today, but the fight over his medical bills isn't over
Mauritius barred Taiwan's presidential plane and says Beijing had nothing to do with it. Mali's crisis goes national: jihadists threaten to cut off Bamako. Trump walks away from Iran's Hormuz offer as oil hits $115.
Read more →Silver Bank's collapse leaves Rs 907 million in public funds with 'extremely unlikely' recovery
Rat-infested warehouses and Rs 200 million in expired medicines: PAC releases its health audit. Mali's capital reaches for calm as Kidal falls, PM breaks his silence. UAE quits OPEC after 59 years, promising to pump more oil from May.
Read more →Three disease alerts at once: chikungunya past 200, leptospirosis kills four this year
Dr Abu Kasenally, surgeon and minister, dies at 84. Mali's junta leader goes silent as the country's crisis deepens. Iran offers to reopen Hormuz without a nuclear deal, but Trump is likely to say no.
Read more →Rs 16 million in cash hidden in the Poudre d'Or rubbish, and then the traffickers showed up
Rs 215 million in police informant payments: ex-Commissioner of Police faces charges. Mali's defence minister killed as rebels seize Kidal. Gunman opens fire at White House press dinner, Trump safe, one agent shot.
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