US President-elect Donald Trump will be consulted on the UK’s deal to hand over the Chagos Islands, where there is a joint US ...

Britain will consult US President-elect Donald Trump's new administration before finalising a deal to return the strategic Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a UK government spokesperson said Wednesday.

Britain’s government has confirmed that it will not finalize a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands ...

More than two centuries of British control over the Chagos islands are set to end, with the UK preparing to hand ownership of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius.

Britain will give U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's new government the chance to review a deal with Mauritius over the ...

Mauritius to continue negotiations with UK over Chagos Islands handover - The Mauritian government said its commitment to ...

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 ...

Britain agreed to hand over the Chagos Islands archipelago, also known as the British Indian Ocean Territory, to Mauritius in October. But Mauritius has reportedly asked for £800million a year ...

Mauritius has ‘made a counter proposal’ in the Chagos ... Diego Garcia, a British Indian Ocean Territory and the largest of the islands in the Chagos Archipelago. Picture: Getty They wrote: "If the ...

Sir Keir Starmer has been facing calls to abandon his surrender of the archipelago after Mauritius’ new government ... the largest of the Chagos atolls. But a source familiar with the talks ...

secure and effective operation of the existing base on Diego Garcia and that Mauritius is sovereign over the [Chagos] Archipelago.” The Mauritian PM’s office didn’t respond to Mongabay’s ...

Despite there being a major UK-US airbase on Diego Garcia - the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago - the UK Prime Minister agreed a deal to give up the islands to Mauritius in October.