{"id":10478,"date":"2026-03-12T09:23:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T05:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/?p=10478"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:01:49","slug":"independence-day-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/?p=10478","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"10478\" class=\"elementor elementor-10478\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-15da0136 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"15da0136\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-581b545b\" data-id=\"581b545b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23e2abaa elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"23e2abaa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Mauritius got its independence on 12th March 1968 and became a Republic in 1992. This year we will celebrate our 58th anniversary of our nation\u2019s freedom and the 34rd anniversary as a Republic.<\/p><p>The RDA staff celebrated this event with a flag raising and cake cutting ceremony<\/p><p>Happy Independence\u2019s Day 2026!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8250746 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8250746\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-820a8e5\" data-id=\"820a8e5\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap 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This year we will celebrate our 58th anniversary of our nation\u2019s freedom and the 34rd anniversary as a Republic. The RDA staff celebrated this event with a flag raising and cake cutting ceremony Happy Independence\u2019s Day 2026!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[238,244],"class_list":["post-10478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-updates","category-news","tag-238","tag-independence-day-2026"],"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"cvmm-medium":["https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"cvmm-medium-plus":["https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6-305x207.jpg",305,207,true],"cvmm-portrait":["https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6-400x600.jpg",400,600,true],"cvmm-medium-square":["https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6-600x600.jpg",600,600,true],"cvmm-large":["https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6-1024x1024.jpg",1024,1024,true],"cvmm-small":["https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6-130x95.jpg",130,95,true],"full":["https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6-scaled.jpg",2560,1920,false]},"categories_names":{"10":{"name":"Latest Updates","link":"https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/?cat=10"},"6":{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/?cat=6"}},"tags_names":{"238":{"name":"2026","link":"https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/?tag=2026"},"244":{"name":"Independence Day 2026","link":"https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/?tag=independence-day-2026"}},"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10478"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10492,"href":"https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10478\/revisions\/10492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rda.govmu.org\/rda\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}