LONDON – The governments of Britain and Mauritius signed a deal to settle the future of the Chagos Islands, the contested archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean, after overcoming last ...

Mauritius is pushing the UK for sovereignty over the Chagos Islands and billions of dollars, but the US could scupper its plans, reports Seán Carey.

New Delhi: Resolving a more than 50-year-old dispute, the United Kingdom returned the sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius Thursday. The agreement is the first major diplomatic ...

‘Tug of war’: Chagos Islands deal tearing families apart in Mauritius Mauritius awaits Trump’s approval for the UK to hand over the archipelago, with Chagossians at odds over what’s in it ...

Britain’s government has confirmed that it will not finalize a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius until President-elect Donald Trump’s administration is ...

The Chagos Archipelago - a group of seven atolls with a population of just over 4,000 - was separated from Mauritius in 1965, when Mauritius was still a British colony.

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to secure the future of a ...

Louis Olivier Bancoult was four years old in 1968 when a medical emergency took him and his family away from their island home in the middle of the Indian Ocean. The 2,000-km sea journey from Peros ...

Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean archipelago of its inhabitants to make way for a strategic military base.

Donald Trump may still veto Sir Keir Starmer’ s controversial plans to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, despite the PM’s plans to push ahead with the deal. With reports that the UK ...

The future of the .io domain remains up in the air after the UK finalized a treaty that puts the Chagos Islands — once the British Indian Ocean Territory — under control of Mauritius.

Meanwhile Diego Garcia, the largest of the islands in the Chagos Archipelago, has been a shadowy military base, hosting around 5,000 American military personnel and dozens of ships and aircraft.