Slam poet Geraldine Baptiste pulls no punches when telling the story of her “Granpapa”, one of the 1,500-plus people ripped from a peaceful existence on the Chagos Islands by the British to ...

A UN panel has urged the UK to renegotiate a deal handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, saying it "fails to guarantee" the rights of the Chagossian people.

The Mont Choisy Golf and Beach Estate in the north of Mauritius was once a vast swathe of sugarcane, the centuries-old basis ...

Mauritius is an island off the east coast of Madagascar, also an island, ... Around 3,000 people live on the islands, who are mostly British and American servicemen.

When a huge freighter aground on the coast of Mauritius cracked open last Thursday, August 6, David Sauvage took immediate action. He called up his friends and team members from Rezistans ek ...

A kaleidoscope of folk. The people of Mauritius reflect the nation’s colonial past. The island was uninhabited until the Dutch tried to settle there in 1638.

But despite the U.K. paying 3 million pounds for the islands, Mauritius has argued it was illegally forced to give them away as part of a deal to gain ... a country of few more than 1 million people.

To the East lies the ancient and extinct volcanic island of Rodrigues, which is part of Mauritius’ territory. 140 miles West lies La Reunion. It has an active volcano and a population of 860,000.

Over 50% of the island country’s land is arable, with sugarcane occupying about 90% of its total cultivation land.In fact, sugarcane is the country’s major export crop – in 2013, Mauritius ...

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

In his first event on the island, Francis celebrated Mass with about 100,000 people, who were gathered outdoors on a hillside under a monument dedicated to Mary.