The Government announced that the UK will hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, in a contentious deal intended to end years of legal wrangling about the Indian Ocean archipelago.

UK announces landmark deal to hand Chagos Islands back to Mauritius - minus US military base - Tories attack the deal but US ...

The British government announced last week that it is handing the Chagos Islands to Mauritius under an agreement that will see the American naval and bomber base stay on one of the islands ...

The latest example: He apparently pushed the U.K. to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to the island country of Mauritius. The Chagos archipelago is unremarkable but for ...

When Captain Robert Moresby sailed through the Chagos Islands between 1834 and 1837, to conduct the first survey of the archipelago by a British explorer, he was struck by the atoll’s remarkable ...

Mauritius gained independence in 1968, but the Chagos Islands, an inseparable part of Mauritius, became a part of what came to be known as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), a new English ...

Last week, the British government announced that it has agreed to give up ownership of the Chagos Islands, a territory in the Indian Ocean it has controlled since 1814 — relinquishing the .io ...

Mauritius expects to receive billions of rupees from the UK following an agreement under which Britain ceded sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to the Indian Ocean island nation. “England has ...