Mauritius drops all remaining Covid travel rules Indian Ocean island had previously required testing and quarantine from unvaccinated travellers The Independent UK · Jun 30, 2022
Sri Lanka crisis gives India chance to gain sway vs China Sri Lanka’s strategic location on Indian Ocean shipping lanes has long attracted outsized interest in the small island nation from regional giants China and India The Independent UK · Jun 30, 2022
Hopes of justice for Michaela McAreavey dashed as case against man on theft charge is thrown out EXCLUSIVE: Michaela, 27, was strangled in her room at the Legends Hotel on the Indian Ocean island on January 10, 2011. Irish Mirror · Jun 29, 2022
Sri Lanka Stops Fuel Supply to Non-essential Services as Crisis Worsens Sri Lanka will shut schools and only allow fuel supplies to services deemed essential like health, trains and buses for two weeks starting Tuesday, a minister said, in a desperate attempt to deal with a severe shortage. Sri Lanka is suffering its worst economic crisis, with foreign exchange reserves at… Asharq Al-Awsat · Jun 27, 2022
To combat coral bleaching, Kenya turns to reef nurseries The marine area off the coast of Kenya at Wasini Island, jointly managed by a foundation and the island’s community, has been planting over 8,000 corals a year since 2010 and placed about 800 artificial reef structures in the channel in a bid to restore Wasini’s coral gardens The Independent UK · Jun 27, 2022
Four novelists, one ocean: how Indian Ocean literature can remap the world Novels make worlds. They create an intuitive sense and mental image of a place. And the senses of space produced by fiction shape how readers see the world itself, just like maps do. The Conversation · Jun 7, 2022
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka gets $55-million credit line from India for fertilisers Sri Lanka's cabinet has approved a $55-million credit line from India's Exim Bank for the crisis-stricken Indian Ocean nation to buy fertilisers, a cabinet spokesman said on Tuesday. Reuters · Jun 7, 2022
South Africa court to rule on Shell offshore oil exploration A South African court is to rule on efforts to stop British oil giant Shell from conducting any further seismic surveys in the country’s Indian Ocean waters to explore for offshore oil and gas deposits The Independent UK · Jun 2, 2022
Seychelles says the rich world is failing on climate Climate-aid pledges by industrialized nations are worthless, says the leader of the Seychelles, an Indian Ocean archipelago threatened by rising sea levels. Tribune News Service · May 30, 2022
Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On rain Test your Science quotient with this quiz The Hindu · May 27, 2022
European fishing fleets accused of illegally netting tuna in Indian Ocean Reports handed to EU claim vessels likely to have entered coastal states’ waters where stocks are dwindling The Guardian - UK · May 26, 2022
Lone survivor of 2009 plane crash testifies in Paris court The lone survivor of a 2009 plane crash in the Indian Ocean took the stand Monday in a Paris courtroom The Independent UK · May 23, 2022
Tamil refugees detained by UK on Chagos Islands go on hunger strike Forty-two hunger strikers are part of group of 89 Sri Lankans whose boat was intercepted in Indian Ocean by UK military The Guardian - UK · May 20, 2022
MH370's four possible flight paths as expert claims to know location of doomed plane The mystery surrounding missing Malaysian flight MH370 has plagued theorists since 2014, but experts now claim to know its final location after studying its erratic flight path Daily Mirror · May 20, 2022
The Hindu · May 16, 2022 India, France carry out second joint patrol in Southern Indian Ocean Maritime domain awareness and anti-submarine cooperation have emerged as priority areas in the region
Daily Mirror · May 14, 2022 Missing plane MH370 'was being followed' as expert claims to know location New investigation by aerospace engineer reveals strange disturbances in flight pattern of the Malaysian 777 that disappeared over the Indian Ocean without trace in 2014
The Conversation · May 13, 2022 Pink pigeons in Mauritius made a remarkable comeback from near-extinction – but are still losing genetic diversity Back in the 1980s there were just ten or so pink pigeons left in the wild. Known to scientists as Nesoenas mayeri, the species is found only on Mauritius, the Indian Ocean island that was once home to the dodo. Like the dodo, the pink pigeon made an easy target…
ABC News · May 5, 2022 Christmas Island residents going without fresh produce, postal services due to supply chain woes While the Indian Ocean territory has had its fair share of isolation-related issues, recent wait times for deliveries have blown out severely, with some residents saying it's putting their health at risk.
The Times of India · Apr 30, 2022 In this young singer’s ‘UniHERse’, gender equality is key PANAJI: Akshada Bandekar took up singing at the tender age of three and has been in the limelight since, with her on-stage performances across Goa and beyond. She has always believed in harnessing her music for social causes, right from the time she held a fund-raiser concert at age six…
The Hindu · Apr 24, 2022 Rajnath Singh, S. Jaishankar to address 4-day Indian Navy commanders conference The commanders are expected to have specific deliberations on the Chinese Navy's increasing forays into the Indian Ocean
Reuters · Apr 19, 2022 First COVID, now floods empty South Africa's eastern beach resorts 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.
France 24 · Apr 19, 2022 Why Marine Le Pen's far-right political agenda has taken hold in French Mayotte 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.
Edinburgh Live · Apr 6, 2022 Edinburgh welcomes massive Dutch navy submarine with anti-nuclear torpedos 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
The Independent UK · Mar 29, 2022 India plans power project in Sri Lanka after China's shelved 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
The Hindu · Mar 27, 2022 India-Maldives partnership a ‘real force of stability’ for Indian Ocean region: Jaishankar Jaishankar made the remarks while inaugurating the National College for Policing and Law Enforcement (NCPLE) in the Maldives’ Addu city