Britain and Mauritius are finalizing a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a U.K. territory that is home to ...

Chagos is one of the world’s longest-running unresolved issues ... The Chagos islands or Chagos Archipelago is a group of 58 atolls in the Indian Ocean, lying around 2,200km north of Mauritius.

The Chagos Marine Protected Area is one of the world's largest officially designated ... of Mauritius on the future of the Chagos archipelago. There has been an agreement that the Mauritian ...

Negotiations between Mauritius and the United Kingdom over the long-disputed Chagos Archipelago are underway, with Mauritius' newly elected government pushing for a fresh look at a deal aimed at ...

Britain split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.

Approval from the White House was necessary to broker the deal due to U.S. military cooperation with the U.K. at the joint Diego Garcia base on the archipelago’s largest island. The Chagos ...