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Today, no Chagossians are allowed to live on the island of Diego Garcia or anywhere in the Chagos archipelago, despite many of the islands they used to inhabit being over 160 km away from Diego Garcia. The Chagossians are a mix of African, Indian and Malay descent. [4] The French brought some to the Chagos Islands as slaves from Mauritius in ...
Post Office Limited, commonly known as the Post Office, is a retail post office company in the United Kingdom that provides a wide range of postal and non-postal related products including postage stamps, banking, insurance, bureau de change and identity verification services to the public through its nationwide network of around 11,500 post office branches.
Since India became independent in 1947, the postal service continues to function on a nationwide basis, providing a variety of services. The structure of the organization has the directorate at its apex; below it are circle offices, regional offices, the superintendent's offices, head post offices, sub-post offices and branch offices.
Mauritius has a multi-party system which is mainly dominated by three parties namely Militant Socialist Movement (MSM), the Labour Party and Mauritian Militant Movement (MMM). Out of the 12 national elections, the MSM has won six (1983, 1987, 1991, 2000, 2014 and 2019), the Labour Party won four (1967, 1995, 2005 and 2010) and the MMM won two ...
The 2015 Ibrahim Index of African Governance ranked Mauritius first in good governance. [1] According to the 2015 Democracy Index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit that measures the state of democracy in 167 countries, Mauritius ranks 18th worldwide followed by Uruguay and United States and is the only African country with Full Democracy.
April 6 – Based on ReliefWeb, about 24 million Ethiopians live in drought affected areas and about 11 million of them need food assistance. About 2.05 billion USD is required for the response. [38] April 7 – ReliefWeb reported that there was at least 2624 targeted civilian fatalities from April 2022 to 2023. [39]
2022-2023 South Pacific cyclone season summary map. On January 5, a tropical disturbance which was designated as 03F formed near New Caledonia, becoming the first system to form in 2023. 03F dissipated two days later as it was
[5] [6] Among sub-Saharan African countries, Mauritius has one of the highest literacy rates. [7] The adult literacy rate was at 91.9% in 2022. [8] [9] [10] According to the 2022 census, the proportion of people with higher education has increased to 8.8%. [11] [12] [13] Mauritius was ranked 57th in the Global Innovation Index in 2023, 1st in ...