The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean, to...

Mauritius will assume sovereignty over the Indian Ocean archipelago while the joint US-UK military base remains on Diego Garcia, the largest of the...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United Kingdom has agreed to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal to secure the operational future of...

LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that would allow people...

LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that would allow people...

Britain said on Thursday it would give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that would allow people displaced decades ago to...

The Chagos Islands will be part of Mauritius, but the thousands of islanders who were evicted by Britain in the 1960s don't see any clear path home.

The deal includes the tropical atoll of Diego Garcia, which is used by the United States as a military base.

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian Ocean.

Agreement to hand back UK’s last African colony follows 13 rounds of negotiations and international pressure