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Thoughts, ideas and stories from the command line.
According to Bruneau Laurette, the initiator of the protest march, between 123,000 and 157,000 people joined the protest march on the Saturday 29 August 2020 in Port-Louis. The Mauritius Police Force anticipated a crowd of about 20,000 people and preparations were made in that sense.
The openSUSE Ad-hoc Board Election is now concluded. Stasiek Michalski has been elected to join the openSUSE Board. The complete result is as follows
Santi Bai 'Maya' Hanoomanjee, cousin of the Prime Minister of Mauritius, Pravind Kumar Jugnauth, was nominated as the High Commissioner of Mauritius to India shortly after Jugnauth's alliance won the general elections of 2019 by scoring 37.68% of Mauritian votes
Yesterday, we were all saddened by the news of 18 dead dolphins brought ashore by sea waves on the south-east coasts. We were also angry when we found out that the Fisheries Minister, Sudheer Maudhoo, denied any link between the deaths of the animals and the Wakashio catastrophe
The Government expects the citizens to trust the government institutions and yet the ministers, with the approval of the Prime Minister, continue the shameful practice of appointing their loyalists as directors or chairperson on boards of government agencies
I was in primary school, in standard II, when the Rs 20 bank note, which carried the portrait of the then Prime Minister of Mauritius, Sir Anerood Jugnauth's wife, Lady Sarojni Jugnauth, was in circulation
AFRINIC Board Elections will be held during the Africa Internet Summit (AIS'20). The final candidate slate was published a few days ago. I was particularly interested to see who are the candidates running for Seat 3, representing the Indian Ocean
Every six months Google publishes its transparency report which provides details on the different types of requests that the company received from government agencies from around the world
Yesterday morning, the Prime Minister of Mauritius, P. K. Jugnauth was interviewed via video conference on BBC News. He was questioned on the oil spillage due to the grounding of MV Wakashio near Pointe d'Esny