The Latest Breaking News from Indian Ocean

Months into a severe drought, authorities in the French overseas department of Mayotte have ordered taps shut off two days out of three. The island archipelago in the Indian Ocean is experiencing its worst dry spell in nearly 30 years.

Capacity building and cooperation in defence industry and equipment was also discussed at length by the two sides.

A plane carrying Israelis home from the Indian Ocean island nation of Seychelles has made an emergency stop in Saudi Arabia before flying back to Tel Aviv

Authorities on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte said they demolished more than 80 illegal dwellings as part of a crackdown on illegal migration and poor housing.

Locals in Grande Comore island mobilised to rescue a 10-ton baby humpback whale stranded near the port of Moroni. With rudimentary means but much effort, they managed to keep the baby whale alive until it could move back into the Indian Ocean.

Study finds El Nino's effect on India's monsoon varies regionally: ENSO linked to 70% of North India's rainfall fluctuations, 10% in Central India, and stable in South India. Climate change impacts Indian Ocean temperatures, influencing monsoon trough and depressions, making Central India less predictable. Monitoring other factors, like Indian Ocean…

An Indian Navy Dornier maritime patrol aircraft and an IAF C-130 transport aircraft visited Australia’s Cocos (Keeling) Islands (CKI) in the Southern Indian Ocean, close to Indonesia in early July, sources said

French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting his Sri Lankan counterpart in the first visit by a French leader to the Indian Ocean island nation

Whether an Indian Ocean holiday in Mauritius or an escape to the Lake District takes your fancy, here’s some inspiration for after the school summer break

A new study postulates there was an ancient ocean that no longer exists, given the planet's imperfect sphere shape

Researchers in India used computer simulations to show how the geoid low in the Indian Ocean could have formed up to 140 million years ago from magma plumes.