Réunion and Mayotte
Politics | Travel - Leisure | Environment - Nature
Pollution scandal hits holiday island Réunion
afrol News, 4 June - Eight communes on the Indian Ocean island of Réunion are being investigated in what is developing into a pollution scandal on the popular tourist destination. For two of the mayors in charge, criminal prosecutions are being prepared for pollution and non-compliance with European Union standards for sewage treatment plants.
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Réunion and Mayotte
Politics
900,000 Africans prepare for French polls
afrol News, 28 March - Will Africans choose Ségolène Royal as France's first female President? Since the 19th century, many African voters have influenced French polls, but in this year's presidential elections, only inhabitants of the Indian Ocean islands Réunion and Mayotte are to cast their vote. Campaigning is already fierce.
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Réunion and Mayotte | Comoros
Society | Politics
Migrants' new secret door to Europe; Mayotte
afrol News, 21 November - While the European Union (EU) is spending large sums to stop illegal migration via the Canary Islands, over the Gibraltar Straits and over the Mediterranean, a new EU destination is growing in "popularity". The French Indian Ocean island Mayotte is an integrated part of the EU, and now sees a booming number of "boat people" arriving.
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Réunion and Mayotte
Environment - Nature
Rénuion's rare cuckooshrike again recovering
afrol News, 7 September - The highly endangered Réunion cuckooshrike, only living on the Indian Ocean island, seemed to be headed towards extinction, but a conservation scheme has been producing positive and rapid results. Birdwatchers set up traps close to the cuckooshrike's nesting places, killing rats and cats that would otherwise have eaten its chicken.
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Mauritius | Réunion and Mayotte
Health | Travel - Leisure | Economy - Development
Tourist arrivals up in Mauritius; disaster in Réunion
afrol News, 5 June - The Chikungunya epidemic in the popular Indian Ocean islands destinations has had an uneven effect. In Réunion, the hardest hit island, the season is described as a disaster and strategies to "reconstruct" the entire sector are being launched. In Mauritius, on the other hand, tourist arrivals increased by six percent in the first quarter of 2006.
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Réunion and Mayotte | Comoros
Science - Education | Health
Mutated Chikungunya virus caused Indian Ocean epidemic
afrol News, 24 May - Researchers at the French Institut Pasteur have managed to retrace the origin and evolution of the Chikungunya virus that is causing a major epidemic in the Indian Ocean. Viral strains isolated from Réunion and the Seychelles clearly demonstrated a small mutation from its East African origin while passing from Comoros to Réunion, aiding the virus to reproduce more aggressively in mosquitoes. Around 275,000 persons have so far been infected during the current Chikungunya outbreak.
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Health | Economy - Development | Travel - Leisure
Also Indian Ocean tourists hit by chikungunya virus
afrol News, 6 April - While Mauritius and the French island of Réunion are reporting of a decreasing number of people being infected with the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus, the number of deaths attributed to the epidemic is reaching 160. Despite earlier claims from Seychelles that "no tourists" had been infected, European clinics are registering a growing number of persons returning from the Indian Ocean islands with the disease.
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Health | Economy - Development | Travel - Leisure
Mosquitoes in Paradise: Chikungunya epidemic spreads
afrol News, 7 March - The mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus is jumping from one island to another in the Indian Ocean region. Island states that are known as "Paradise" to tourists stand helpless in their fight against the mosquitoes. Some 157,000 people have been infected in the French island Réunion alone, and the virus has got a firm hold on Seychelles, Mauritius and Mayotte (French) as well. Tourists are afraid to go as the epidemic spreads.
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Health | Economy - Development
Chikungunya epidemic spreads in Indian Ocean
afrol News, 8 February - Chikungunya, a crippling mosquito-borne disease, has seen an explosive spread in Indian Ocean nations. On the French island of Réunion, nearly one in ten inhabitants have been infected and France in now sending 300 soldiers to get the outbreak under control. The disease, to which there is no cure, has also spread to Madagascar, Seychelles and Mauritius.
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Economy - Development | Politics
Indian Ocean nations intensify cooperation
afrol News, 22 July - At a summit in Antananarivo today, the African Indian Ocean nations agreed to intensify regional cooperation. The Heads of State from Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and the French islands Réunion and Mayotte (President Jacques Chirac) participated at the third summit of the Indian Ocean Commission (COI), where solidarity among the rich and poor nations of the region was focused.
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Comoros | Réunion and Mayotte
Travel - Leisure | Economy - Development
Comoros gets new airliner in November
afrol News, 30 August - In November this year, Air Comores International will embark on its first regional and intercontinental flights. The airtransport company has already been established in Moroni, with capital from private and government sources in Comoros, from French airliners and with the "active participation" of Air Bourbon, the airliner of the French colony Réunion. Other Indian Ocean airliners face tougher competition.
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