In a joint statement with Mauritian PM Pravind Jugnauth, Keir Starmer said that Mauritius will take control of the islands, ...

By walking the decades-old talk on demanding sovereignty for Mauritius and holding firm throughout the negotiation process, ...

Authorities identified two men — one of them a college police officer — who got into a violent confrontation that left one of ...

The Koster archipelago's snail populations, affected by a toxic algae bloom, became the focus of a decades-long study ...

After almost 59 years of controversial existence, the last vestige of the British Empire in the Indian Ocean, the British ...

Strategically located between East Africa and Southeast Asia, Diego Garcia serves as a surveillance centre for the Middle ...

The United Kingdom agreed last week to return the Chagos Islands, a remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to the African ...

The environmental impacts of a change in management and human activity depends on what, if any, development takes place and ...

Mauritius is a stable and prosperous Indian Ocean archipelago. Once dependent on sugar exports, the island has built up a ...

UNHCR has approved a request by the UK to transfer 36 Sri Lankan asylum seekers from Diego Garcia and Rwanda to a transit ...

The policy reversal comes as Britain agrees to hand over control of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius.

Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, is strictly out of bounds to most civilians, despite being home to beaches ...