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

The recent transfer of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius marks the end of the last African colony of the United Kingdom and ...

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 ...

When Great Britain began to decolonise its Indian Ocean territories, there was no logic or reason why the islands should be ...

A legal dispute is playing out after asylum seekers arrived on the secretive island in the Indian Ocean, with UK authorities ...

The archipelago was acquired in the 1960s and a US military base established by displacing the indigenous population to ...

THE Chagos Islands are an archipelago that have made headlines after the UK agreed to hand sovereignty over the group to ...

Government offers migrants on Diego Garcia - part of the Chagos Islands - move to Romania in long-running asylum claims ...

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

The island of Rodrigues is located in the Indian Ocean, 600km east of Mauritius, and is an idyllic paradise which remains ...

The UK has offered dozens of stranded migrants, held for years in a camp on a secretive UK-US military island in the Indian ...