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

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

The Chagos islanders were expelled from the Indian Ocean archipelago, which is known as British Indian Ocean Territory, by the UK between 1967 and 1973 at the request of the US, which had leased ...

Note: This is part three of a three-part series on the proposed handover of the Chagos Archipelago from the UK to Mauritius. ...

Britain will give U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's new government the chance to review a deal with Mauritius over the ...

Britain 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.