The Latest Breaking News from Mauritius

On 15 February 2022 the Mauritian flag was raised on two Indian Ocean atolls, Peros Banos and Salomon, both belonging to the Chagos archipelago. This was the first time that Mauritius’ flag was raised in the Chagos Islands, even though there is clear evidence that these 60 islands form part…

'The object of the exercise is to get some rocks which will remain ours.... There will be no indigenous population except seagulls," wrote Sir Paul Gore-Booth, a senior official at the British Foreign Office, as the plan to expel the 2,000 Chagos Islanders from their homes was taking shape in…

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