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MAURITIUS: No longer forbidden love

PORT LOUIS Monday, June 09, 2008 (IRIN) - Last year, Camille Liu's * future was looking good. He had met a woman - "a perfect match" – while working in Mozambique as an electrician. They fell in love, decided to move to his home country – Mauritius, get married and have children. But when Anna Magurra * arrived on the tropical Indian Ocean island, ready to accept her fiancé's proposal, a few bureaucratic issues stood in the way of their marriage - one of them was an HIV test. Anne's test...

MAURITIUS: No longer forbidden love

Last year, Camille Liu's future was looking good. He had met a woman - "a perfect match" – while working in Mozambique as an electrician. They fell in love, decided to move to his home country, Mauritius, get married and have children. But when Anna Magurra arrived on the tropical Indian Ocean island, ready to accept her fiances proposal, a few bureaucratic issues stood in the way of their marriage - one of them was an HIV test. Anna's test results came back positive. "I was...

SOUTHERN AFRICA: Zimbabwe not on summit agenda

Norway and the European Union on Sunday urged southern African leaders to resolve the political crisis in Zimbabwe as their credibility was at stake. Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told heads of government of the 14-member Southern African Development Community (SADC), meeting in Mauritius, that “this situation should not be allowed to continue”. Louis Michel, EU commissioner for development and humanitarian aid, called on SADC to find a solution to the Zimbabwean...

MAURITIUS: Dangerous paradise - sex, drugs and HIV

It is hard not to resort to clichés when writing about Mauritius: the white, sandy beaches, sunny blue skies and swaying palm trees. This Indian Ocean island paradise is the stuff travel brochures are made of. Stepping off a plane filled with eager tourists and a group of honeymooners proudly flashing "just married" t-shirts, it is easy to see how tourism has become the main source of income. Tourists are not the only ones pouring into the country: extensive air and sea connections to south...