Deputy Prime Minister of Mauritius Louis Steven Obeegadoo has described Bangladesh as a shining example of development and noted “miraculous progress” that Bangladesh achieved in the socio-economic sector over the last one decade. Obeegadoo praised Bangladesh and its growth when Foreign Secretary (Senior Secretary) Masud Bin Momen paid a courtesy call on the Deputy Prime Minister at his office in Port Louis, Mauritius on Tuesday. Read: Bangladesh, Mauritius eye Minister-level visits; see vast potential The Deputy Prime Minister commented that the people of his generation get inspiration from Bangladesh's Liberation War. He expressed satisfaction at the way Bangladesh handled the Covid-19 situation to protect its people and bring back the economy on the right track.

Mauritius Foreign Minister Alan Ganoo has invited a Bangladesh delegation led by his counterpart Dr AK Abdul Momen including businesspeople, IT experts and entrepreneurs to explore the possible areas of collaboration and investment. Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen also invited Mauritius Foreign Minister Ganoo and Foreign Secretary Haymandoyal Dillum to visit Bangladesh this year at a time convenient to them. Foreign Secretary (Senior Secretary) Masud Bin Momen discussed the areas of cooperation between Bangladesh and Mauritius during his three-day official visit to Port Louis, Mauritius that ended on Tuesday. The Foreign Secretary, Secretary (MAU) Md. Khurshed Alam and other members of the Bangladesh delegation visited "Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Street" located in the heart of the city, in Plaine Verte and paid tribute to the greatest Bangalee of all time Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Bangladesh and Mauritius will collaborate on potential areas to boost trade and investment to elevate bilateral ties. Both sides particularly mentioned the pharmaceutical, tourism and IT sectors. Also read: Romania to send Consular team to Dhaka for 3 months Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen, now on an official visit from February 13-15 February, paid a courtesy call on Mauritius Foreign Minister Alan Ganoo and his counterpart Haymandoyal Dillum where the whole gamut of bilateral issues was discussed.  

A Bangladeshi woman who went to the African nation Mauritius last year through a recruiting agency has filed a case  accusing the company of human trafficking. According to the case statement, the woman was taken to Fire Mount Textile Company in Mauritius after she reached there on February 5, 2020.  From then she started working as a helper there although the company didn’t pay her wages regularly. Md Shah Alam,43, a Bangladeshi man who used to run the worker’s canteen and his assistants Furkan, Siddique and Aslam used to threaten her as she refused the indecent proposal of the company’s owner through them. One day they took her to the owner Anil Kohli’s house saying he had complained against her. She was raped there by Anil Kohli and they captured footage of her. Later they raped her many times and forced her to have physical relationships with others, threatening to spread the video footage on social media. Also read: Trafficking Report: Bangladesh still on Tier 2 They even made her abort a child as she became pregnant at one point, she claimed in her statement. On December 28, 2020, the woman was sent back to Bangladesh with the condition of not filing any complaint against them and before that in November they recruited her father in her  place. Since she filed the complaint her father is being threatened by the perpetrators now, she said. According to her more than 600 Bangladeshi women work in that factory where Shah Alam, Furkan, Siddique, Aslam forcefully engage them in prostitution and the owner Anil Kohli oppresses them. After the news was broadcast in Bangladeshi and Mauritius news media the culprits are trying to convince her to solve the matter outside the court through different ways. Also read: Trafficking of 26 Bangladeshis killed in Libya: Bail of 4 accused suspended The woman filed the case with the help of the BRAC Migration program that helped her to recover from the traumatizing incident that happened with her. Head of the BRAC Migration program Shariful Hasan said the description the victim gave was grim. Sexually oppressing and engaging in forceful prostitution in the name of recruitment in a foreign country falls under human trafficking, he said. The Government of Mauritius and Bangladesh should jointly investigate the matter, if any other Bangladeshi immigrant worker is being oppressed like this, said Shariful Hasan.

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