There are fish in every shade imaginable, gliding gelatinous jellyfish, mesmerising plants, and colourful coral, and even ...

The UK Government’s agreement on the future of the Chagos Islands has run into trouble following elections in Mauritius and the United States.

Police in Mauritius have arrested the immediate former central bank governor for alleged conspiracy to defraud the nation, ...

Police in Mauritius arrested the country's former central bank governor on Friday in connection with an investigation into a case of conspiracy to defraud, local media in the Indian Ocean island ...

After decades of negotiations, Britain agreed in October to hand back the Indian Ocean islands to Mauritius, a former colony, on the condition that a UK-US military base can remain on the largest, ...

Mauritius is 'overplaying its hand' with demands for more money to secure the Chagos Islands, a former top mandarin has ...

China is seeking to deepen cooperation with countries in the Indian Ocean region to boost the blue economy and explore new maritime economic collaboration models, a senior Chinese official said on ...

Sanjiv Ranjan will be the next Secretary General of the Indian Ocean Rim Association, a statement by the Ministry of External ...

Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri recently visited Mauritius recently where he met top officials of the country in a bid to strengthen the bond between the two nations.

Mauritius is still holding out on a deal to regain control of the strategic Chagos Islands from Britain, despite pressure from the United States which has a key military base there.

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was triggered by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded. But what caused the quake? And why was it so destructive? Syahida Othman explains.

“The most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe – and rightly so,” Alfred Lansing wrote of explorer Ernest Shackleton’s 1916 voyage across it in a small lifeboat. It is, of course, the Drake ...