As part of the £90 million a year expected to be paid to Mauritius to keep control of the base, Sir Keir has promised a ...

The third argument critics of the deal make is to look askance at the absence of Chagossians from the negotiation. This claim ignores the fact that ministers have engaged Chagossian groups in the UK, ...

The Prime Minister, Dr Navinchandra Ramgoolam, expressed, yesterday, his confidence that there would be a positive resolution over the agreement between Mauritius and the United Kingdom on the ...

The UK Government has confirmed today (Thursday 3 October) that it has reached a political agreement on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. Today’s political agreement is ...

In any case, Mauritius’s claim rests on the ludicrous idea that, since the Chagos archipelago was administered by the British from Mauritius, it should be Mauritian today – a risible argument that ...

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

The US has made a last-ditch intervention on the future of the Chagos Islands, demanding a seat at the negotiating table ...

President Trump's intervention could see further delays after the UK and Mauritius reached a deal on the territory, pending ...

President Trump must intervene to prevent this handover, which would damage U.S. national security and ultimately play into China's hands.

Donald Trump’s US administration will have a seat at talks over the future of the Chagos Islands, the Mauritian prime ...

1. The Chagos Archipelago, comprising around 58 islands, is located approximately 500 kilometers south of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. These islands remained uninhabited until the late 18th ...

The Chagos archipelago, he said, was “a portion of our territory of which very few people knew, … which is very far from here, and which we had never visited”. He also said that Mauritius had ...