In a bid to heal past wounds, Mauritius will manage a trust fund for Chagossians, allowing them to resettle on two of the Chagos Islands – Salomon and Peros Banhos.

The campaign challenging British ownership of the Chagos archipelago included the Mauritian ambassador to the UN, Jagdish Koonjul, raising his country's flag above the atoll of Peros Banhos in a ...

Mr Doughty raised the prospect of Mauritius leasing one of the other islands - such as Peros Banhos, Danger Island and the Egmont Islands - to a foreign power.

The Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean comprise seven atolls, with the northernmost atoll called Peros Banhos. Maldivians know the Chagos islands as Foalhavahi which are just 300 miles from Addu ...