Cyclone Chida, a powerful category four storm, ripped through communities in the southern Indian Ocean off the coast of east Africa over the weekend, devastating the French territory of Mayotte in the ...
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 have no ...
The April 2025 trilateral agreement between India, Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates to develop Trincomalee's energy hub represents a strategic counterweight to China's expanding Indian Ocean ...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in the French territory of Mayotte from Cyclone Chido is “several hundred” and may be close to 1,000, the island’s top government official told the local ...
A Transall C-160 aricraft of France’s Forces armées dans la Zone-sud de l’océan Indien (FAZSOI) on Tromelin Island in 2013. The French presence in the Indian Ocean region began in the 17th century and ...