Mauritius
Facts and historical events related to Mauritius, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive and the On This Day collection.
- Countries with the cheapest cost to purchase 1 Gigabyte of mobile data in Africa: Sudan 🇸🇩 - 27 cents (US…
- According to the UN-sponsored World Happiness Report 2021, here are the 10 happiest countries in Africa: 1.…
- For foreign companies trying to invest in Africa, the possibility of being asked for a bribe by a foreign p…
- Ladies and gentlemen, a part of Africa is STILL being colonised by the UK. Chagos Islands, which 🇬🇧 cut o…
- Mauritians are the wealthiest in Africa, with an average wealth of $31,000 per person, followed by South Af…
- The 10 most competitive economies in Africa, 2019. 1.Mauritius 🇲🇺 2. South Africa 🇿🇦 3. Morocco 🇲🇦 4.…
- The 21 safest countries to travel to in Africa are: Angola Benin Botswana Cape Verde Djibouti Equatorial Gu…
- Scoring infrastructure in Africa, 2018. Only Maroc, Egypt, SA, Mauritius and Seychelles reach the global av…
- Yesterday was International Happiness Day, hence the UN released the 2019 World Happiness Report. The 10 mo…
- Corruption in Public sector measured in Sub-Saharan Africa (2018). 1 Seychelles 2 Botswana 3 Cabo Verde 4 R…
- Namibia, Mauritius, Ghana, Rwanda, Benin and Kenya either grant a visa on arrival or allow up to 90 days vi…
- Mauritius is presently offering its citizenship to any foreigner for the sum of $1 million, and an addition…
- This is the SSR Botanical Garden, Pamplemousses, Mauritius, the oldest in the entire world's Southern Hemis…
- Ladies and gentlemen, The President of Mauritius, Professor Ameenah Gurib-Fakim.
- Mauritius has no army, has no wild animals - the snakes there aren't even poisonous. Just a beautiful island.
- Nations in the world with no army; In Africa only Mauritius is on the list. The other 53 countries maintain…
- In the 1960s & 1970s in Africa, the total number of leaders who were peacefully voted out of office was zer…
- In 1990, the number of democratic countries in Africa was only 4 (Botswana, Gambia, Mauritius and Senegal).…
- Seychelles is ranked 1st country for travel/tourism competitiveness in Africa, followed by Mauritius and So…
- Between 1960 and 1989 there was only one instance of an African leader or ruling party being voted out of o…
- French conceded Mauritius, along with the Seychelles, to Britain in 1814, under the Treaty of Paris.
- Even though Mauritius is the most densely populated country in Africa, it does not maintain a standing army.
- Mauritius became a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. (1992)
- Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, the first Prime Minister of Mauritius and widely regarded as the father of the natio… (1985)
- Mauritius gained independence from the United Kingdom, with Seewoosagur Ramgoolam as its first prime minister. (1968)
- Slavery is formally abolished in Mauritius under British colonial rule, freeing tens of thousands of enslav… (1835)