The Chagos Islands are in the middle of the Indian Ocean and home to a strategic military base on Diego Garcia. Fatima Al-Kassab | Posted on May 22, 2025, 5:53 PM. Share. Facebook. Twitter/X.

The agreement between the United Kingdom and Mauritius to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago, while retaining a ...

Mauritius is heavily reliant on offshore services and short-term fiscal gains. It is vulnerable to slow diversification, ...

The agreement between the United Kingdom and Mauritius to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago, while retaining a ...

Chagos has seven atolls and around 60 islands; of these, Diego Garcia is by far the largest. Mauritius is an island off the east coast of Madagascar, also an island, which is off the coast of ...

Britain split the Chagos Islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean ...

Thomas Krych Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during a press conference at a military headquarters in north-west London, Thursday, May 22, 2025, following a deal on the Chagos Islands.

"The Chagos Islands have been British since 1814. Only Keir Starmer's Labour Party would negotiate a deal where we're paying to give something away," Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said.

Britain split the Chagos Islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean ...

The deal comes after a lengthy dispute over the islands that has involved questions over Britain's colonial legacy. The Chagos Archipelago became a British territory in 1814. In 1965, the U.K.