France, Nov. 20 -- Macron landed in Port Louis on Thursday in a visit to a country that has become an economic success story in the Indian Ocean.

Mauritius sits just north of the French overseas territory of Reunion and has a per-capita GDP of more than €8,600, according to the World Bank.

From Mauritius, Macron will head to South Africa for the G20 summit at the weekend, then to Gabon for talks with the country's new president Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema two years after the coup that ended the Bongo family's long rule.

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Home to just over 1.2 million people, Mauritius has changed sharply over the past three decades. Once reliant on sugar cane, ...