Seychelles is the smallest African country and an archipelago of 115 islands located 932 miles (1,500 km) off the coast of East Africa. With just 92,000 inhabitants, it is Africa's smallest ...

The small island nation of the Seychelles off the east coast of Africa has become the unlikely setting of a great power rivalry. China has been making diplomatic inroads for years, while the U.S. has ...

The group belongs to the Outer Islands of the Seychelles, East Africa, lying to the southwest of the island nation, 250 miles southwest of the capital, Victoria, on Mahe Island. The group ...

Madagascar, the world's fourth largest island, sits just off Africa's southeast coast, near Mozambique. But despite this closeness, the vast majority of Madagascar's population has situated itself on ...

Mayotte, a densely populated archipelago of over 320,000 people off the east coast of Africa, is also home to ... the French government's top official on the islands. November to April is cyclone ...

Cape Verde, an island state off the west coast of Africa, consists of ten volcanic islands and was uninhabited by humans until the 15th century. Today, the archipelago offers far less tourists and ...

Hundreds are feared dead after the storm razed entire neighborhoods in Mayotte, a series of islands off the eastern coast of Africa, before unleashing its destructive force on Mozambique.

Supported by By Julie Bourdin and John Eligon Photographs by Sergey Ponomarev Reporting from Mamoudzou, the capital of the French island territory of Mayotte, off Africa’s east coast Nearly a ...

It turned out to be a new species. Scientist Karl Wittmann spent over a decade scuba diving at islands off the northwestern coast of Africa in search of unfamiliar-looking shrimp, he wrote in a ...