The United Kingdom's recent decision to hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former British colony, was a breakthrough, says Mauritian former foreign minister Jean-Claude de l'Estrac. But it ...

Underwater microphones may be able to aid in the recovery of Malaysian Airlines aircraft MH370, which vanished in 2014 while ...

When Captain Robert Moresby sailed through the Chagos Islands between 1834 and 1837, to conduct the first survey of the ...

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

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

Researchers uncover new cartilaginous fish species on the Madagascar Ridge, stressing the urgency of conservation in these ...

“The halt in constructions in the early 15th century follows the commencement of the Little Ice Age,” the team points out – a ...

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 island of Rodrigues, nicknamed “Cinderella of the Mascarenes”, has always been slightly dismissed as Mauritius’ little ...

A chunky low-pressure system, located 1,300 nautical miles SSW of Cape Leeuwin, has produced an impressive round of long-period swell. Over the past 24 hours, we’ve seen this system slightly ...

The UK had controlled the region since 1814 and had detached the Chagos Islands in 1965 from Mauritius to create the British ...