In a home still under construction on the steep outskirts of the Mauritian capital of Port Louis, the large crowd wearing ...

Alfred Downing created accurate sketches of the banks and riverbed of the Columbia River. In 1880, he created a reasonably accurate outline sketch of the Waterville Plateau. He ...

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

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With reports the UK and Mauritius have agreed new terms on the Indian Ocean archipelago, a White House spokesperson told The ...

Britain and its former colony reached a deal last October to hand back Chagos which it kept control of after Mauritius gained independence in the 1960s provided a UK-US military base remains on ...

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.

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Sir Keir Starmer and his Mauritian counterpart have spoken directly for the first time about the Chagos Islands deal. The Prime Minister told Navin Ramgoolam he wants “strong protections” for the ...

Sir Keir Starmer and his Mauritian counterpart have spoken directly for the first time about the Chagos Islands deal. The Prime Minister told Navin Ramgoolam he wants “strong protections” for ...