Cardinal Maurice Piat of Port-Louis, Mauritius, has praised public responses to an oil spill that devastated the island's coastline, as one prominent lay Catholic demanded "honest information" about ...

Thousands of tons of oil have spilled creating an environmental disaster. The MV Wakashio, a Japanese-owned ship, ran aground on a coral reef at Pointe d'Esny near Mauritius in late July. After days ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The oil spill disaster ...

A ship that ran aground off Mauritius leaking tonnes of oil into the ocean is cracking, the prime minister said Sunday, threatening an even greater ecological and economic disaster for the island ...

(Reuters) – Fishermen battled on Sunday to save dozens of injured dolphins washed ashore in Mauritius where in recent days at least 40 of the animals were found dead in a lagoon near the site of an ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese bulk carrier struck a coral reef off the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius on July 25, spilling about 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil and triggering a state of ...

Tens of thousands of Mauritians protested Saturday in the capital Saint-Louis over the government's handling of a giant oil spill off its pristine Indian Ocean coast. It was the biggest protest in ...