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

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

David Lammy used to be an arch-critic of Donald Trump. Can he deal with the new Administration and reset the U.K.’s ...

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

Mauritius Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has questioned the duration of the lease on a U.S.-British military base, he told a ...

Officials from the UK and Mauritius had reportedly been hurrying to finalise the deal before US President-elect Donald Trump ...

US President-elect Donald Trump will be consulted on the UK's deal to hand over the Chagos Islands, where there is a joint US ...

Britain’s government has confirmed that it will not finalize a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands ...

More than two centuries of British control over the Chagos islands are set to end, with the UK preparing to hand ownership of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius.

The agreement to hand over the Chagos Archipelago and lease back the strategically vital UK-US military base on Diego Garcia has run into difficulties (Alamy/PA) The UK is considering frontloading ...

The UK is considering front-loading its funding package for Mauritius as part of a sweetened deal ceding sovereignty of the Chagos islands ... according to people familiar with the matter who ...