The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...

The U.K. says it has reached a "historic" deal to cede the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean to the Republic of ...

Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...

The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly ...

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...

UK agrees to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius ...

The Mauritian government said it’s reached an agreement with the UK regarding the Indian Ocean island nation’s sovereignty ...

The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) expressed its support for the UK-Mauritius Chagos archipelago agreement and said that the pact marks a significant milestone in the decolonisation process of ...

The U.K. will maintain de facto control over Diego Garcia, and the crucial U.S. military facility there, for another 99 years ...

Under the terms of this treaty the United Kingdom will agree that Mauritius is sovereign over the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia. For an initial period of 99 years, the United Kingdom ...