The UK is considering front-loading its funding package for Mauritius as part of a sweetened deal ceding sovereignty of the ...

Downing Street would not be drawn on financial arrangements, but it is thought Whitehall could stump up a number of years’ ...

Britain has offered to pay hundreds of millions upfront to Mauritius in order to secure the Chagos Islands deal ...

The Government is currently scrambling to save its agreement to surrender control of the Indian Ocean archipelago, which ...

The UK has offered to frontload payments to Mauritius in a bid to finalise the contentious Chagos Islands deal before Donald ...

The UK Government’s agreement on the future of the Chagos Islands has run into trouble following elections in Mauritius and ...

The British Foreign Office has reported that “the Republic of Mauritius and the UK have ... on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. Further on it said “both countries ...

The British colonised Chagos Islands are a remote but strategically important archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It had been part of Mauritius which itself was a British colony.

Joint statement between the governments of the Republic of Mauritius and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia ...

or of Mauritius, but simply a good old-fashioned Lefty hatred of the American imperium, and the vestiges of the British empire – both of which are neatly united in the Chagos archipelago.

The U.K. and Mauritius announced an agreement in October to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, a chain of more than 60 islands just south of the equator off the tip of India. Under the ...

In addition, as the then prime minister Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam later pointed out, Mauritius had little interest in retaining the islands. The Chagos archipelago, he said, was “a portion of our ...