The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius is dealing with an oil spill from the MV Wakashio, believed to have been carrying 4,000 ...

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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 ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Tens of thousands of people have protested in Mauritius over the government’s slow response to an oil spill from a grounded Japanese ship and the alarming discovery of dozens of ...

The prime minister of Mauritius said Tuesday two sailors were dead and two others missing after a tugboat assisting in a major oil spill clean-up off the Indian Ocean island collided with a barge. A ...

The Japanese operator of a ship that leaked oil off the Mauritius coast pledged Friday to pay at least $9.4 million to help restore areas affected by the spill. Mitsui OSK Lines said in a statement ...

The island nation of Mauritius was plunged into an environmental crisis after a wrecked Japanese ship has spilled tons of oil into the sea, baby elephants took part in a naming ceremony at the ...

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Large cracks running through a cargo ship that has been leaking oil into the pristine Mauritius waters could cause the vessel to break in two, prompting what officials have warned would be an ...