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

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

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

The environmental impacts of a change in management and human activity depends on what, if any, development takes place and ...

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

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

Britain said on Thursday it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said secured the future of ...

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...

The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly ...

Annabel Fenwick Elliott, 37, moved to Mauritius with her family in 2023 after falling in love with the island's low cost and ...

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

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