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 ...

Annabel Fenwick Elliott, 37, moved to Mauritius after her husband, Julius Scholtes, 31, who is German born, couldn't get a ...

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

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

The United Kingdom's recent decision to hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former British colony, was a ...

“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 ...

After decades of legal battles, Britain has agreed to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former colony. The remote ...

In 1965, as part of the decolonisation process, the UK separated the islands from Mauritius, creating a new colony. From 1968 ...

Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago ...

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