The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly evicted, while maintaining a key U.S.-British military base there.

Where are the Chagos Islands, why has the UK given them to Mauritius and what about the Falklands? - The African island nation will assume sovereignty over the archipelago – minus a military base – af

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, in a deal to secure the future of a strategically important U.