Mauritius will temporarily raise taxes on individuals and corporations and cut spending on some social programs to shore up ...

has been the decolonisation of the Chagos Islands by persuading Mauritius to take them on but lease back the base on Diego Garcia. This has been achieved at a cost, estimated by the government of ...

Emirates has officially launched its new Travel Store in Port-Louis, Mauritius, marking a significant milestone i ...

Britain would transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius. It ends one of the most enduring – and contested – legacies of its colonial era.

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending decades of British control. This controversial deal allows the UK and US to retain joint use of the Diego ...

A British court halted the U.K.'s planned transfer of sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius just hours before the signing. The agreement, which included a leaseback of the Diego Garcia ...

The UK on Thursday signed an agreement to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and lease back the Diego Garcia military base, critical to the UK and the US, for an average of 101 million pounds ...

The United Kingdom has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, following a High Court ruling that has cleared the way for Prime Minister Keir Starmer to formalise the ...

(AP Photo/Kin Cheung) Chagossian Bernadette Dugasse shows sea shells from the Chagos Islands during an interview with The Associated Press, at her home in London, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP ...

LONDON (AP) — Bernadette Dugasse was just a toddler when her family was forced to leave her birthplace, the Chagos Islands. She didn’t get a chance to return until she was a grandmother ...

In a TV address last night, Mauritius PM Navin Ramgoolam hailed ... A 24-nautical mile buffer zone will be put in place around the island where nothing can be built or placed without UK consent.

Bernadette Dugasse was just a toddler when her family was forced to leave her birthplace, the Chagos Islands. She didn’t get a chance to return until she was a grandmother, and ...