Under the treaty of transfer, the UK will pay Mauritius rent for a 99-year lease, but 99 years is an “eye blink to China” and ...
Mauritius is an ally of China, and Beijing is licking its chops at the prospect of conducting electronic snooping of the base ...
The United Kingdom's recent decision to hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former British colony, was a breakthrough, says Mauritian former foreign minister Jean-Claude de l'Estrac. But it ...
The UK government's decision to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius surprisingly threatens the extinction of millions of ...
The sun will finally set on the British Empire, reportedly heavily due to President Joe Biden's pressure on Prime Minister ...
The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly ...
The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...
The Chagos Islands are the site of one of the shabbier episodes from the period when Britain gave up its empire. Their 1,500 or so inhabitants, the Chagossians, were forcibly expelled in the 1960s ...
In a joint statement with Mauritian PM Pravind Jugnauth, Keir Starmer said that Mauritius will take control of the islands, ...