Mauritius awaits Trump’s approval for UK to hand over archipelago, with Chagossians at odds over what’s in it for them.

The UK has asked for "strong protections" for a joint UK-US military base on the Chagos Islands. Britain agreed last year to hand over the archipelago over to Mauritius after a decades-long dispute.

Luquin. Speculation is rife that U.S. President Donald Trump might block an agreement between Britain and Mauritius to resolve their long-running dispute over the Chagos Archipelago in the central ...

The UK Government has confirmed today (Thursday 3 October) that it has reached a political agreement on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. Today’s political agreement is ...

In the Seychelles, the president of the local ... Chagos from Mauritius was illegal, and the UN General Assembly adopted a non-binding resolution, giving London six months to return the archipelago.

Allowing China to establish even a minimal footprint in the Chagos archipelago would dramatically shift the balance of power in the region and weaken U.S. deterrence. Trump must make it clear to ...

Since the 1970s, the UK and the United States have jointly operated the Diego Garcia military base on the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago, making the possibility of Mauritian sovereignty ...

Britain's government insisted Thursday that it must hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius ... of Justice recommended that Britain hand the archipelago to Mauritius after decades of legal ...

the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago. However, the Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam, who was elected in November, has questioned the deal, and U.S. President Donald Trump's team ...