Small, uninhabited but strategically important islands are a point of contention between France and Madagascar ...

The benefits of an integrated Indian Ocean are clear and multifaceted: increased trade, better maritime security, more ...

President Macron’s recent tour of the IOR underscored the complex interplay between France’s global strategic ambitions and ...

Four small coral islands, an atoll and a reef in the Indian Ocean are at the centre of geopolitical tensions between France and Madagascar. Although they cover just 16 square miles of land and ...

Hospitals on the French Indian Ocean Island of Reunion are reaching breaking point amid a chikungunya virus outbreak that has claimed six lives since January, affecting one out of nine people.

France’s pledge to confront its colonial legacy is being tested in Madagascar, where historic grievances are clashing with ...

These differences are shown in gravitational anomaly maps, which illustrate where gravity is stronger (red areas) or weaker (blue areas). Discovered in 1948 by Dutch geophysicist Felix Andries Vening ...

A disabling mosquito-borne disease called chikungunya has killed six people in the French Indian Ocean island of La Reunion but the outbreak appears to be easing, authorities said on Wednesday.