Football at the 2015 Indian Ocean Island Games will host matches of the Football competition Football at the 2015 Indian Ocean Island Games The men's association football tournament at the 2015 Indian Ocean Island Games (French: "Jeux des îles de l'océan Indien 2015") will be held in Réunion. The competition format will be determined based upon the number of teams entering the competition. Each team will have up to 20 players. If more than four teams enter there will be two Groups; A and B. Réunion, the representative team of the host will be placed in Group A and Seychelles, the winner of the 2011 edition will be
Effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on the Maldives and supplies. Rescue efforts were hampered by loss of communication capability with the over one thousand islands that compose the nation, as well as by the lack of disaster planning. Effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on the Maldives In the Maldives, 82 people were killed and 24 reported missing and presumed dead after it was hit by a tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on 26 December 2004. Two-thirds of the capital city Malé was flooded during the first hours of the day. Outlying low-level atolls were badly affected, and some low-lying islands, including some of