While the UK and US retain a key strategic military base in the Indian Ocean, the two governments remain apprehensive over ...

Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean ...

WASHINGTON >> The Dodo, the famous flightless bird that inhabited the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, is a case study in extinction caused by humans. The Dodo, finely adapted to its isolated ...

Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...

The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to ...

Mauritius will hold legislative elections on November 10, the presidency announced on Friday, just a day after Port Louis sealed a landmark deal to regain sovereignty over a chain of ...

Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

The President of the Republic of Mauritius, Prithvirajsing Roopun, said on Friday the island nation would hold a general ...

The UK has announced it is giving up sovereignty of a remote but strategically important cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean after more than half a century. The deal – reached after years of ...

Other large British Overseas Territories include the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands and ...

On Thursday, the British government struck a deal with Mauritius, an island country off East Africa, to hand over a cluster of 58 tiny islands in the Indian Ocean known as the Chagos archipelago, ...