Mauritius is an African country and is part of the SADC. (Southern African Development Community). The country might like to think of itself as a satellite of India. It might receive large amounts of petroleum products from India's ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation) and it might have very strong trade links with China but when you fly for Air Mauritius you are working for an airline whose peer group lie on the continent to the west of the island country.
It's nice to see that it seems as though you can still find work with AM as an ex patriate but then again, perhaps life is more congenial flying for an airline in the Congo?