AllAfrica News: Mauritius

[L'Express] Mauritius faces two converging pressures - water scarcity and energy insecurity - both intensified by climate change and already visible in rising temperatures, erratic rainfall, and growing demand. Moreover, the Middle East conflict is putting excessive pressure on our already stressed energy facilities. The question is: how does this two-fold challenge threaten our...

[L'Express] Mauritius was downgraded by Moody's in July 2022 to Baa3, only one notch above sub-investment grade, but with a stable outlook. In January 2025, Moody's maintained the Baa3 rating, but revised the outlook to negative, on the grounds of "uncertainty about Government's ability to reverse recent fiscal deterioration". In January 2026, Moody's acknowledged progress in th...

[L'Express] Introduction : Mauritius has spent nearly six decades defying the predictions made about its bleak future by Nobel economist James Meade in 1961. The second part of this six-part series of essays - to be published in the following days - explains that the Mauritian miracle did not happen in a vacuum, but in a specific international environment almost perfectly design...

[L'Express] Mauritius is not on the FATF grey list today. But the country's recent actions show that it knows the danger has not passed.

[ISS] The Iran war has upended the process of transferring the archipelago's sovereignty from the UK to Mauritius.