There has been scepticism about the proposed deal among allies of Mr Trump, including secretary of state Marco Rubio, but the ...

An anthropologist recounts how a small island nation built and deployed its first satellite—and what their effort says about ...

Britain and Mauritius denied on Wednesday media reports that London could end up paying double the amount in a renegotiated deal to retain a U.S.-British military base on Diego Garcia in the Indian ...

Mauritius welcomes the prospect of U.S. President Donald Trump examining a deal reached by Britain and Mauritius over the ...

Britain reached a deal last year to transfer the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius after a decades-long dispute. The agreement included the tropical atoll of Diego Garcia, home to a UK-US ...

Amrita Shah’s book, The Other Mohan in Britain’s Indian Ocean Empire, is a deeply researched historical work on the Indian diaspora in Britain’s Indian Ocean world. Shah’s book focuses on South Africa ...

LONDON/PORT LOUIS - Britain and Mauritius denied on Wednesday media ... retain a U.S.-British military base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Stephen Doughty, a British Foreign Office minister ...

Where are the Chagos Islands, why has the UK given them to Mauritius and what about the Falklands? - The African island ...

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

Navin Ramgoolam, Prime Minister of Mauritius Mr Ramgoolam said the previous ... the islands could weaken western influence in the Indian Ocean and strengthen the reach of China.

Negotiations on returning the Chagos Islands to Mauritius follow a long-running ... the islands could weaken Western influence in the Indian Ocean and strengthen the reach of China, although ...

The UK took control of the Chagos Islands, or British Indian Ocean Territory, from its then colony, Mauritius, in 1965 and went on to evict its population of more than 1,000 people to make way for ...