Thousands of students, environmental activists and residents of Mauritius are working around the clock trying to reduce the damage to the Indian Ocean island from an oil spill after a tanker ran aground on a coral reef. It spilled an estimated 1,000 tons of oil into the Indian ocean, polluting the island’s coastline. Aalia Adam explains.
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