Mauritius paradise, Antoine Rozner confirms

On the eve of starting the last tournament of 2022, Antoine Rozner is relishing his return to Mauritius in a tournament that almost succeeded 3 years ago, beaten in the play-off by a sensational Rasmus Hojgaard

Mauritius paradise, Antoine Rozner confirms

On the eve of starting the last tournament of 2022, Antoine Rozner is relishing his return to Mauritius in a tournament that almost succeeded 3 years ago, beaten in the play-off by a sensational Rasmus Hojgaard.

Mauritius paradise for golfers? Antoine Rozner confirms!

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The Parisian comes to end his year 2022 on the course of Mont Choisy host of the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open. A route that he discovers like many players and which, with the wind, should prove to be particularly demanding.

For the Frenchman, all the conditions are met to finish on a good note before the holidays.

The Republic of Mauritius, also referred to in Italian as Maurizio is a state insular of Africa; it is located in the southwestern Indian Ocean 550 km east of Madagascar. In addition to the main island of the same name, it also includes the islands of Agalega, Cargados Carajos and Rodrigues.

Mauritius is geographically part of the Mascarene Islands archipelago, which also includes the French overseas territory of RĂ©union, about 200 km southwest.

Mauritius has no official language; however, being a former colony of the United Kingdom, from which it gained independence in 1968, the language used in parliamentary acts is English, although the most widely spoken is Mauritian Creole, largely based on French with English, South African and Indian influences . Slightly less than 4% of the population is instead pure French speaking.

There is no state religion, but the most practiced is Hinduism, from more than half of the population, to about 70% of Indian origin descended from workers sent there under the British Empire in debt servitude. It is the only African country with a Hindu majority.

The island was already known to the Malays and the Arabs at least since the 10th century; the Arabs called her Dina Arobi. The Portuguese discovered it in 1505, baptizing it with the name of Ilha do Cerne ("island of the swan"), but it remained uninhabited until the first Dutch settlement, in 1598. It was the Dutch who gave it the name of Mauritius, in honor of Prince Maurice of Nassau. Cyclones and other unfavorable climatic events led the Dutch to abandon it a few decades later.

In 1715 the French took possession of it, renaming it Île de France. Conquered by the British in December 1810, Mauritius reverted to its Dutch name. On February 1, 1835, the administration abolished slavery. In 1965, the British seized the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, which became part of the British Indian Ocean Territory. Later, the Mauritian government argued that this operation was illegal under international law, claiming possession of the Chagos.

The nation achieved independence on 12 March 1968, and became a republic within the Commonwealth in 1992. The island has always been a stable democracy, with free and fair elections, respecting human rights, and attracting huge investments from abroad. It has one of the highest per capita GDPs in all of Africa.

In January 2021, the UN Maritime Tribunal also ruled that the United Kingdom has no sovereignty over the Chagos and must return them to the Republic of Mauritius.

On August 27, the United Nations postal agency, the Upu, ordered a halt to the sale and use of British postage stamps in the Chagos