It comes after Chagossian campaigners submitted a formal legal communication to the UN as part of an attempt to challenge the ...

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 ...

The Indian Ocean archipelago is home to a strategically important naval and bomber base on the largest of the islands, Diego Garcia. Under the agreement, the UK will pay Mauritius an average of ...

The Government claims that the agreement with Britain signed Thursday, May 22 to cede sovereignty of the disputed Chagos ...

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 ...

The base on Diego Garcia is leased to the United States and ... Britain kept control of the Chagos Islands after Mauritius gained independence in the 1960s. But it evicted thousands of Chagos ...