The Latest Breaking News from Indian Ocean

After two years of the COVID-19 pandemic keeping tourists away, South African resorts along the popular eastern Indian Ocean coastline were hoping for a bumper Easter weekend.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen registered her highest score in the first round of the 2022 presidential election in the overseas French department of Mayotte, an Indian Ocean archipelago located 8,000 km from Paris.

HNLMS Zeeleeuw was towed into port at Leith for a pit stop earlier this week after previously taking part in a Nato-backed global anti-piracy operation in the Indian Ocean

India has agreed to set up power projects on northern Sri Lankan islands in a deal seen as a strategic victory in its competition with China for influence in the Indian Ocean

Jaishankar made the remarks while inaugurating the National College for Policing and Law Enforcement (NCPLE) in the Maldives’ Addu city

Right to license .io address being challenged on grounds Britain no longer has legitimate claim to Chagos Islands

After months of consultation with locals, plans for two marine parks off Christmas Island and Cocos Islands are set to proceed.

Building capacity to counter whatever capacity China can bring into the region, it tells House Committee

Indian Ocean nation asks for a booster after six months

The rose-veiled fairy wrasse lives on reefs as far as 150 metres below the surface of the Indian Ocean and was first recorded in the 1990s — but scientists have only just discovered it is a new species

Rwanda has now fully reopened the Gatuna border with Uganda, ending a three-year impasse on the Northern Corridor, one of East Africa’s key transport arteries that funnels goods from the Indian Ocean seaport of Mombasa to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo. Rwanda abruptly closed the border in…