The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been ...
Mauritius is an ally of China, and Beijing is licking its chops at the prospect of conducting electronic snooping of the base ...
The British government unsurprisingly wants to draw a line under that sorry history. On October 3rd it announced plans to ...
After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...
The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...
Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...
The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly ...
The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...
"Under the terms of this treaty the United Kingdom will agree that Mauritius is sovereign over the Chagos Archipelago, ...
Sir Keir Starmer has given up the Chagos Islands, handing the Indian Ocean territory to Mauritius. The islands were ...
The British government made the deal to return all the Chagos Islands, except for Diego Garcia, which holds a U.K.-U.S. Navy base.