The Latest Breaking News from Mauritius

Macaque monkeys live as both captive and wild animals on the island of Mauritius. The wild population number is estimated at between 25,000 and 35,000 animals, it’s uncertain how many exist in captivity, but the figure is in the tens of thousands. The reason for a high captive number is…

A superyacht hired by Mauritius recently set out to conduct a scientific survey of the Blenheim reef, 230km off the coast of Diego Garcia in the Chagos archipelago. A group of Chagossians accompanied the scientists in what has been hailed as an “historic” event by Mauritian prime minister Pravind Jugnauth.

Row breaks out over Google Maps definition as UK insists it still maintains sovereignty

World sympathy and legal balance shifting to Mauritian claim to islands

Earlier this month, a U.S. federal court stayed proceedings to identify Air India as an alter ego of India and to find its assets in the U.S. to facilitate recovery of compensation

The decolonisation of Mauritius was never fully completed. This is because, in 1965, the British government put islands belonging to Mauritius into a new colonial jurisdiction, the British Indian Ocean Territory, which still exists today. It is long past time for this colonial-era wrongdoing to be made right, and for…

Between 1968 to 1973 the UK deported islanders to make way for a US Air base and 3,000 settled in Crawley, West Sussex but now risk being deported because they were not born in the UK

In search of replenishment, Sarfraz Manzoor finds his sweet spot at this Indian Ocean paradise

Britain has reaffirmed its sovereignty over a remote Indian Ocean archipelago after Mauritius underlined its own territorial claim by planting a flag on the islands

The UK has had sovereignty over the British Indian Ocean Territory since 1814

Mauritian ambassador to UN raises country’s flag above atoll of Peros Banhos