US President Donald Trump, sitting alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the Oval Office on Thursday, signalled he supported the UK’s plan to transfer control of a group of small but ...

Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has said his country would pursue its fight for full sovereignty over the islands if Washington refuses to support the deal.

Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has said his country would pursue its fight for full sovereignty over the islands if Washington refuses to support the deal.

A Mauritian government statement said leader Navin Ramgoolam had used a speech to affirm that the country had “shown openness and willingness to find common ground by accepting the presence of a ...

A figure for the value of the deal has not been disclosed, but it has been reported at a cost of £90 million per year. The UK is in talks with Mauritius about handing over sovereignty of the ...

The Mauritian government has been urged to renege on a deal for the Chagos Islands and demand more in reparations from the "British ex-colonisers". The UK Government has agreed to return ...