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the continent, with adverse government policies and multifaceted
economic woes still undermining the full development of African media.
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New York, September 7, 2000 --- An irate crowd of some three dozen people calling themselves agents of Mauritian prime minister Navin Ramgoolam's Labor Party staged a loud demonstration in front of the offices of Le Mauricien and L'express, the island's leading independent dailies.
Wielding sticks and shouting slogans, the protesters railed against what they called the two newspapers' bias against Prime Minister Ramgoolam. The prime minister is seeking reelection in Monday's general elections, a vote observers say he is unlikely to win. On September 6, Le Mauricien and L'express both reported that Ramgoolam had been booed the previous day by a crowd of disgruntled Labor Party sympathizers in his home constituency of Pamplemousse, a small town ten miles outside the capital of Port Louis.
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