The United Kingdom has agreed to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, marking the end of its last African colony. However, ...

Where are the Chagos Islands, why has the UK given them to Mauritius and what about the Falklands? - The African island ...

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...

Mauritius is an ally of China, and Beijing is licking its chops at the prospect of conducting electronic snooping of the base ...

The United Kingdom's recent decision to hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former British colony, was a ...

The British government unsurprisingly wants to draw a line under that sorry history. On October 3rd it announced plans to ...

The UK will return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but Diego Garcia will remain under UK-US control. Chagossians, displaced ...

Under the treaty of transfer, the UK will pay Mauritius rent for a 99-year lease, but 99 years is an “eye blink to China” and ...

In 1965, as part of the decolonisation process, the UK separated the islands from Mauritius, creating a new colony. From 1968 ...

Britain has announced it will hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending more than half a century of direct control over the islands. The move has been criticised by some Indigenous groups ...

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 ...

Read more: Britain's ownership of the Chagos islands has no basis, Mauritius is right to claim them In a deal announced in a joint statement, London and Port Louis have agreed that all but one of ...