The Latest Breaking News from Mauritius

Giving away the Indian Ocean archipelago to the east African nation will cost £35 billion, Whitehall estimates suggest

Just before this year's women's Tour de France, Kimberley Le Court Pienaar was simply another young woman who could blend into the background on the streets of the Mauritian capital Port Louis.

Boasting beauty and variety, choose from the many beaches dotted around the island of Mauritius for a day at the beach

The UK has agreed to pay Mauritius at least £120 million a year to lease back the Diego Garcia base post-handover.

The child was stopped by officials at Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam airport alongside seven other individuals after they disembarked from a British Airways flight from Gatwick

In this week’s episode of TravelSmart, Independent Travel is exploring the Indian Ocean, diving into two of the most popular idyllic beach getaways: the Maldives and Mauritius.

Mauritius is ‘likely’ to resume its campaign to secure a judgment on sovereignty against Britain unless the agreement is rubber-stamped, peers said

Following a sharp drop in Tesla’s share price, outlets reported that the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, had “lost” US$34 billion (£25 billion) in a single day. That figure exceeds the annual GDP of countries like Iceland, Jamaica or Mauritius. Gaining or losing even 0.001% of that wealth would be…

Mauritius’s water supplies are running very low. As a small island, it is affected by tropical cyclones, rising temperatures, rising sea levels, and a warming ocean. Rainfall levels have decreased by 8% over the last 10 years.