Mauritian Prime Minister Paul Berenger on Monday conceded his ruling coalition’s defeat in weekend parliamentary elections, telling the Indian Ocean island that the opposition ”would form the next government”. He said his coalition had lost in Sunday’s polls to the Social Alliance, headed by ex-premier Navin Ramgoolam.
Early parliamentary election results in Mauritius on Monday showed the opposition ahead in areas that were considered strongholds of the ruling alliance, private and state-owned radio stations said. The polls capped a campaign in which the governing coalition and the main opposition alliance ran a close race.
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/ 28 February 2005
France-based teenager Katlego Mphela scored as South Africa edged Mauritius 1-0 on Sunday to reach the Cosafa Cup finals. Racing Strasbourg striker Mphela drilled a deflected free kick past goalkeeper Nicolas Doro after 35 minutes at the King George V Stadium to clinch first place in group A of the new-look Southern Africa football championship.
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/ 20 February 2005
With the exception of the men’s long race, South African athletes made a clean sweep at the ninth Cross Country Championships of Africa’s southern region at Candos Hill, Mauritius, on Saturday. The races, contested in heavy rain on a muddy course, posed a true obstacle test for the runners of seven countries.
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/ 19 January 2005
Less than a month after the abolition of global textile quotas, the once-booming clothing industry in Mauritius is already feeling the pinch. Textile firms that relocated to Mauritius in the 1970s, sparking a local boom and becoming a backbone of the economy, are leaving the Indian Ocean island in droves for Asian nations like China, say business leaders.
Thirteen Southern African leaders have approved a new regional charter on free and fair elections that specifies how they should be conducted to guarantee democracy, officials said on Tuesday. At a summit on the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius, all the heads of state and government gave their blessing to the charter.
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Prime Minister Paul Berenger of Mauritius opened a summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) with an appeal for regional respect for democracy and free elections. Berenger asked the 13 heads of state and government at the summit to sign a charter on democratic and free elections.
Trade ministers from African, Caribbean and Pacific countries worked on Saturday to hammer out a joint position on global trade to protect their mainly agriculture-based economies in hardball negotiations with the world’s most powerful nations. The one-day meet took place in the northern resort town of Grand Bay in Mauritius.