Downing Street would not be drawn on financial arrangements, but it is thought Whitehall could stump up a number of years’ ...

The Government is currently scrambling to save its agreement to surrender control of the Indian Ocean archipelago, which ...

The UK is considering front-loading its funding package for Mauritius as part of a sweetened deal ceding sovereignty of the ...

The U.K. and Mauritius announced an agreement in October to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, a chain of more than 60 islands just south of the equator off the tip of India. Under the ...

Despite there being a major UK-US airbase on Diego Garcia - the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago - the UK Prime Minister agreed a deal to give up the islands to Mauritius in October.

Mauritius is still holding out on a deal to regain control of the strategic Chagos Islands from Britain, despite pressure from the United States which has a key military base there. After decades ...

Mauritius is demanding more from Britain in the deal for the Chagos Islands with Labour desperate to sign it off before Donald Trump gets into the White House. Ministers were accused by a senior ...

Mauritius's deputy prime minister has hinted that negotiations with the UK over the future of the Chagos Islands are being held up over the amount of money involved. Under the terms of the ...

Mauritius's deputy prime minister has hinted that negotiations with the UK over the future of the Chagos Islands are being held up over the amount of money involved. Under the terms of the original ...