Mauritius awaits Trump’s approval for UK to hand over archipelago, with Chagossians at odds over what’s in it for them.

Britain's government insisted Thursday that it must hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius to secure continued access to ...

Chagos islanders still dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the ...

With reports the UK and Mauritius have agreed new terms on the Indian Ocean archipelago, a White House spokesperson told The ...

The UK has asked for "strong protections" for a joint UK-US military base on the Chagos Islands. Britain agreed last year to ...

We will work with Mauritius to start a new programme of visits for Chagossians to the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia. And Mauritius will be free to develop a programme of resettlement ...

Luquin. Speculation is rife that U.S. President Donald Trump might block an agreement between Britain and Mauritius to resolve their long-running dispute over the Chagos Archipelago in the central ...

More rests on the conclusion of this saga than the pride of the British government. On one of the 60-odd islands that constitute the Chagos archipelago resides the Diego Garcia military base: a joint ...

“If the deal isn’t signed, we will continue our fight, which began in 1965, to ensure the Chagos archipelago regains Mauritian sovereignty,” he told Defimedia, in a warning to Sir Keir Starme ...

Media reports have suggested Mauritius is attempting to lower the time the joint UK-US military base on Diego Garcia - the largest island in the Chagos archipelago - from 99 years to 50. A ...

The UK split the 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 Territory.

The UK took control of the Chagos Islands, which it called the British Indian Ocean Territory, from its then-colony Mauritius in 1965 — three years before the archipelago gained independence.