Lucie Tiatos, 78, tells me in Chagossian creole (translated through a young man Maxwell who speaks both), that "if god keeps ...

when the French brought in enslaved laborers from Africa and India to work on newly established coconut plantations. In 1814, under the Treaty of Paris, France ceded Mauritius—including the Chagos ...

Government remains confident that a speedy resolution will be reached in the coming weeks between Mauritius and the United Kingdom (UK) on the Chagos Archipelago. The Prime Minister, Dr ...

The Prime Minister, Dr Navinchandra Ramgoolam, expressed, yesterday, his confidence that there would be a positive resolution over the agreement between Mauritius and the United Kingdom on the ...

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 said it wouldn’t provide any details on a proposed multibillion-pound deal to continue operating a military base in the Chagos archipelago once it cedes control of the islands ...

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 ...

There is hope that the historic agreement securing the country’s sovereignty over the Chagos archipelago will be signed on March 12 – Mauritius Independence Day. A top official close to the ...

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 ...

Chagos islanders still dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the White House they may have to wait a little longer. Late last year ...