The UK has agreed to pay Mauritius at least £120 million a year to lease back the Diego Garcia base post-handover.

A legal challenge demanding the UK Government consult Chagossians before transferring sovereignty of their homeland has ...

First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut ...

Mauritius is ‘likely’ to resume its campaign to secure a judgment on sovereignty against Britain unless the agreement is ...

Analysis - The decades-long Chagos islands dispute has finally entered a new chapter. The UK officially agreed to return the sovereignty of the archipelago to Mauritius.

Story so far: Mauritius won a strategic victory on May 22, 2025, when the United Kingdom (U.K.) officially handed over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands after finalising the political treaty ...

The U.K. recognized the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius’ claim to the Chagos Archipelago in an agreement signed May 22. ... (MPA) in Chagos, an expanse of 640,000 square kilometers ...

Britain separated the Chagos Islands from Mauritius in 1965 before it became independent in 1968. A leaked internal Foreign Office memo notoriously belittled the Chagossians as “a few Tarzans ...

I have listened since as it has been argued in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and in its marine tribunal that the decolonisation of the Chagos was not properly concluded in the 1960s because ...

India has expressed its support for the treaty signed between the United Kingdom and Mauritius, which aims to restore Mauritian sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia.

UK signs deal to return Chagos Islands to Mauritius while retaining joint US-UK control of Diego Garcia for £101 million annually. Moneycontrol World Desk. May 23, 2025 / 15:05 IST .

After some last-minute legal delays, the Chagos Islands treaty between the UK and Mauritius has been signed, and will almost certainly be implemented in the coming weeks. The great controversies ...