Madagascar and Comoros are facing their first outbreaks of clade Ib mpox amid cross-island transmission, fragile health systems, and cyclone damage. Esther Nakkazi reports.

Iran has launched missiles toward Diego Garcia, a remote Indian Ocean island that hosts a major U.K.-U.S. military base.

The attack on the Diego Garcia facility is the first time in the war that Tehran has been reported to have used weapons with such a range.

President Trump on Tuesday defended his sharply worded Truth Social post blasting the United Kingdom over a controversial deal to transfer and lease back Indian Ocean islands to Mauritius — a move his own administration had formally endorsed months earlier. Asked by a reporter about a May State Department statement praising “the historic agreement” he later criticized, Trump said he ...

The small Indian Ocean island of Mayotte announced a red alert as cyclone Belna closed in on Sunday, threatening the French department of quarter of a million people. The storm was expected to make landfall around 7:00 pm local time (1600 GMT), and island ...

The Socotra archipelago, located in the Indian Ocean, has been referred to as the most alien place on Earth because of its bizarre, long-lost, and oth.

Starmer’s Chagos deal dealt major blow as judge rules Chagossians have right to live on disputed islands - Justice James Lewis, the judge for the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) Court, has ruled