Indian Ocean Express

Initialed in October 2019 in Beijing, the free trade agreement between Mauritius and China entered into force on January 1, 2021. Mauritius now benefits from immediate duty-free access to the Chinese market for 7,504 tariff lines of goods. Duties on 723 additional tariff lines will be phased out in the....

Uneven economic recovery, according to the World Bank. The economic rebound expected in 2021 after the shock of the health crisis will be of unequal magnitude across Africa as a whole, according to the latest World Bank estimates. Djibouti would be the champion of the recovery, with a growth of 7,1% of its Gross Domestic Product. Mauritius is the island of....