An anthropologist recounts how a small island nation built and deployed its first satellite—and what their effort says about ...

Lucie Tiatos, 78, tells me in Chagossian creole (translated through a young man Maxwell who speaks both), that "if god keeps ...

We should go back to base camp, look at the judgment and say there are other ways of doing this without just handing over a ...

The Westman Multicultural Festival began yesterday and runs until tomorrow. It features 11 pavilions — El Salvador, Colombia, HAMI, India, Jamaica, Nigeria, Mauritius, Palestine, Philippines, ...

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Just three months into power, Labour pulled off what it billed as a diplomatic coup: ending a long-running dispute over the status of the Chagos Islands, one of Britain’s final imperial possessions, ...

As so-called patriots argue over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, Fleet Street Fox points out the one thing everyone's ...

Amrita Shah’s book, The Other Mohan in Britain’s Indian Ocean Empire, is a deeply researched historical work on the Indian diaspora in Britain’s Indian Ocean world. Shah’s book focuses on South Africa ...

Now, The Independent understands that Chagossian Voices, a group representing people who originate ... have their own language and culture entirely separate to Mauritius. They also claim they ...

The military base at Diego Garcia, the so-called "Footprint of Freedom," is a seventeen-square mile atoll of the Chagos ...

Despite a challenging start to life, a young South African girl repatriated from Mauritius in December ... including traditional foods and local languages. Having spoken French and Creole all ...