Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that would allow people ...

F ew places in the world are quite so remote as the 60 or so islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago. Africa sits 3,000km to the west, Indonesia 3,000km to the east; the nearest large land mass is ...

Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...

The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...

The United Kingdom Foreign Office on Thursday said it had reached an agreement to hand over the rule of the Chagos Islands to ...

Mauritius will hold legislative elections on November 10, the presidency announced on Friday, just a day after Port Louis ...

The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly ...

Britain said on Thursday it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said secured the future of ...

The deal grants Mauritius full sovereignty over the archipelago, while simultaneously guaranteeing the operation of the US-UK ...

Britain on Thursday said it would give up sovereignty of a remote Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius but will maintain ...

The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to ...