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Indian Ocean

Beneath the waves: the huge undersea volcano and its very active neighbourhood.

International report

Bubbling under!

Sound Kitchen Podcast

Unesco’s 2019 World Heritage List

A Hawksbill turtle swimming over a coral reef in the shallow waters near Astove island.

Seychelles, blazing a trail in marine conservation

Humpback whales and other cetaceans use surface behaviour such as breaching for many functions including breathing, feeding and communication.

africa - whales - tourism - oceans

Mozambique tour operators warn against over-loving whales

Diego Garcia, one of the 65 islands in the Chagos Islands archipelago in the Indian Ocean, where a US military base is located

Chagos Islands - decolonialism - UK - Mauritius

Chagos Islands sovereignty case - the end of the end of British colonial rule in Africa?

King Penguins

French island’s penguin population in rapid decline

Pickets block access to the Mayotte village of Bandrele last week

Mayotte - France

Unions suspend protest, warn of 'civil war' on French Indian Ocean island Mayotte

Diadem sea urchins (Diadema setosum), crown-of-thorns starfish and corals in their natural habitat in Madagascar

Cop21 Paris - Africa

Don’t forget the oceans at Cop21, say East Africa researchers and activists

French President Hollande is surrounded by participants of a France-Oceania summit ahead of the Climate Change conference, Paris, 26 November 2015.

FRANCE- oceania

Hollande hosts Oceania delegation ahead of COP21

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls in Mayotte on Saturday

France - Mayotte

Valls promises to fight 'plagues' of crime, illegal immigration on Indian Ocean island

French gendarmes block demonstrators at the gates of the Reunion Marine Reserve building in Saline les Bains after a surfer was attacked by a shark in 2012

FRANCE - Reunion island

13-year-old killed by shark off France's Réunion island

The hospital in Saint-Denis de la Réunion where the woman has been hospitalised.

France - Réunion

French patient released from Réunion island hospital after Ebola scare

Saint-Denis de la Réunion, where the woman has been hospitalised

France - Réunion

Suspected Ebola case reported on French Indian island Réunion

The Mauritius capital, Port Louis

FRANCE - MAURITIUS

French woman faces trial in Mauritius for drug trafficking

French President François Hollande on a three-day visit to the Indian Ocean.

France - Mayotte

François Hollande to discuss illegal immigration, development in Mayotte

Ericka Bareigts, Socialist MP for a Réunion constituency

France - La Réunion

France to debate Réunion island's stolen generation

Mayotte

Seven migrants found dead in sea off French island of Mayotte

The Andasibe Mantadia forest

International report

Spotlight on Madagascar Part 5 - Environment

Demonstrators stand behind a burning car as they face riot police in the city of Le port, west of the French island of La Reunion

France - overseas territories

Second night of rioting on French Indian Ocean island, Réunion

Police intercept a boat smuggling migrants to Mayotte

France - Mayotte

Protests after two-month-old baby dies in Mayotte immigrants' centre

A tiger shark

France - Réunion

Shark bites off surfer's hand and foot in Réunion island's third attack this year

Somali coastguards patrol the Indian Ocean waters near the capital Mogadishu

African news explained

UN must fight pirates, say ship owners

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