The UK-Mauritius treaty on the Chagos Archipelago will transfer sovereignty of the islands back to Mauritius, while maintaining an initial 99-year lease on the joint UK/US military base on Diego ...

Dame Priti Patel asked whether ministers ‘are afraid’ of Labour backbenchers, who might ‘force them into another embarrassing U-turn’.

The UK has agreed to pay Mauritius at least £120 million a year to lease back the Diego Garcia base post-handover.

First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut ...

Mauritius is ‘likely’ to resume its campaign to secure a judgment on sovereignty against Britain unless the agreement is rubber-stamped, ...

Mauritius will face "very significant logistical challenges" to resettling the outer islands of the Chagos archipelago and it is "necessarily uncertain" that the Mauritian government will ever be ...

However, the Chagossian people’s identity and resettlement remain unresolved. The Chagos Archipelago is an integral part of Mauritius, an island nation in East Africa. Three years before the country ...

Britain took control of Mauritius from 1810 when it was seized from the French. Between 1814 and 1965 the Chagos Archipelago was administered by the UK as a dependency of the Mauritius colony.

How long have the Chagos Islands been in UK hands? Britain took control of Mauritius from 1810 when it was seized from the French. Between 1814 and 1965 the Chagos Archipelago was administered by the ...

Negotiations to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius began under the previous Conservative ... Chagossians would be allowed to settle on the outer islands of the archipelago, he ...

But not the Chagos islands, which had been part of Mauritius but became a new colonial territory. The residents of the largest island in the archipelago, Diego Garcia, were forced off the land.