Donald Trump should reject the United Kingdom's bad deal to transfer its sovereignty over Diego Garcia island to Mauritius. Only China would benefit.

Speculation is rife that U.S. President Donald Trump might block an agreement between Britain and Mauritius to resolve their ...

The British government’s negotiation with the Republic of Mauritius to cede the Chagos Islands has been a mess. At time of ...

A prospective deal on returning the Chagos islands to Mauritius will ensure the United States maintains its strategic military base on the Indian Ocean archipelago, Mauritius's prime minister said ...

The UK government confirmed Wednesday that it will not finalize a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius until President-elect Donald Trump's administration is ...

“If the deal isn’t signed, we will continue our fight, which began in 1965, to ensure the Chagos archipelago regains Mauritian sovereignty,” he told Defimedia, in a warning to Sir Keir Starme ...

Media reports have suggested Mauritius is attempting to lower the time the joint UK-US military base on Diego Garcia - the largest island in the Chagos archipelago - from 99 years to 50. A ...

The UK split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.

Britain's foreign secretary David Lammy said it was right that the new U.S. administration has the chance to review a deal ...

Kin Cheung/AP “The discussions revolved around the conditions attached to the agreement between Great Britain and Mauritius on the Chagos Archipelago, particularly Diego Garcia. I explained to ...

The UK took control of the Chagos Islands, which it called the British Indian Ocean Territory, from its then-colony Mauritius in 1965 — three years before the archipelago gained independence.