The British government unsurprisingly wants to draw a line under that sorry history. On October 3rd it announced plans to ...

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

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been ...

Mauritius is an ally of China, and Beijing is licking its chops at the prospect of conducting electronic snooping of the base ...

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

Under the new political agreement, the UK will provide financial support to Mauritius, including a new trust fund for ...

Watch a house tour of mum’s Mauritius home - with four bedrooms, a sea view, pool, a cleaner and gardener - after she left ...

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...

“Mauritius is at a crossroads economically—and perhaps, even politically,” says Pritish Behuria, associate professor at the ...

Mauritius is a stable and prosperous Indian Ocean archipelago. Once dependent on sugar exports, the island has built up a ...

The British government agreed Thursday to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than ...

Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that would allow people ...