The Latest Breaking News from Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros is urging France to step back from a looming operation that could see the forced return of illegal migrants from the neighbouring French island of Mayotte.

The legacy of the medieval Swahili civilization is a source of extraordinary pride in East Africa, as reflected in its language being the official tongue of Kenya, Tanzania and even inland countries like Uganda and Rwanda, far from the Indian Ocean shore where the culture developed nearly two millennia ago.

At least 22 would-be migrants attempting to reach the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte died when their boat sank off the coast of Madagascar over the weekend, according to maritime authorities.

Rob Adcock, from Leek in Staffordshire, has used Skyscanner to work out how to get from London Gatwick to the Maldives in the Indian Ocean for less than four nights in a Travelodge hotel room

The fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is explored in a new Netflix documentary

Four people were killed when Tropical Cyclone Freddy, which had resurfaced, slammed Madagascar on Monday.

The pair were searching at Shark Bay, on the Indian Ocean coast at the most westerly point of Australia, when they came across the "world treasure" that may be the oldest Chinese artefact in Australian history

A Netflix docuseries tries to untangle the many theories surrounding the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines flight that shocked the world

An ongoing row between the European Union and coastal Indian Ocean nations over sustainable tuna fishing continues to simmer after a resolution in early February temporarily banned the use of destructive driftnets