Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

India has maintained strong support for Mauritius over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands and played a quiet but important ...

The U.K. will maintain de facto control over Diego Garcia, and the crucial U.S. military facility there, for another 99 years ...

Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...

The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...

This historic move will also handover the sovereignty of Diego Garcia - which is one of the islands in Chagos used by the ...

Mauritius will hold legislative elections on November 10, the presidency announced on Friday, just a day after Port Louis ...

In a landmark pact, the UK recognizes Mauritian sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, including Diego Garcia, amid Indian ...

The UK and US retain joint military base on Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean for which there have been longstanding ...

F ew places in the world are quite so remote as the 60 or so islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago. Africa sits 3,000km to the west, Indonesia 3,000km to the east; the nearest large land mass is ...

UK government has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius while retaining sovereignty of Diego Garcia airbase for an initial period of 99 years.

In a historic move, the UK will be handing over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius while ...