The United Kingdom’s (UK) October agreement to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius appeared to address longstanding international legal issues surrounding decolonisation and ...

LONDON (AP) — Two women born on the Chagos Islands are seeking to take the British government to court over a proposed deal to transfer sovereignty of the disputed Indian Ocean archipelago to ...

On Thursday, the British Government signed a treaty with Mauritius which, if ratified by Parliament, will grant Mauritius the sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, which have belonged to the United ...

One hundred…million pounds. That is (roughly) the (annual) amount Britain will pay Mauritius to keep a military base on the Chagos Islands crucial to British and indeed American security.

The Chagos Archipelago dispute is a microcosm of the broader tensions shaping global maritime geopolitics. The United Kingdom's (UK) October agreement to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos ...