Fury as Mauritius uses UK Chagos deal cash to pay for debts instead of indigenous resettlement - It comes after Chagossian ...

The real challenge facing the Mauritian government is how to turn a diplomatic triumph into sustainable economic development.

Mauritius deal to turn over the archipelago shores up Western influence in the Indian Ocean as China tries to increase its ...

This payment to Mauritius is ostensibly to safeguard the British-American military presence, yet it effectively leaves the door open for increasing Chinese influence in the region. China’s reaction ...

“I don’t think I will ever be able to settle on my birthplace.” Mauritius can implement a resettlement program on all the islands except Diego Garcia, which, as a military base, will remain under U.K.

Britain separated the Chagos Islands from Mauritius in 1965 before it became independent in 1968. A leaked internal Foreign ...

The United Kingdom has signed an agreement to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, while leasing the Diego Garcia military base to maintain joint US-UK control for an annual fe ...

Mauritius gained independence from the UK ... so they could build a naval support facility on the largest island, Diego Garcia. It is leased to the US but operates as a joint UK-US base.

As part of the agreement, the UK will pay Mauritius approximately £101 million (USD 136 million) annually to lease back the critical military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island in the ...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Thursday he had signed a contentious deal to return the remote Chagos Islands to ...

Britain’s government has acknowledged that its removal of islanders was wrong, and has granted many citizenship and set aside some funds to improve their lives. But it continues to bar Chagossians ...

The deal will transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands from the UK to Mauritius — though Britain will retain control of the largest of the chain of islands, Diego Garcia, which hosts a ...