but since Mauritius for the British empire, including the remote adjoining islands, where the original Chagos people lived and called home. The fact is that in 1965, in the midst of the Cold War ...

Police in Mauritius arrested the country's former central bank governor on Friday in connection with an investigation into a case of conspiracy to defraud, local media in the Indian Ocean island ...

New prime minister says UK’s proposed handover of the islands ‘would not produce the benefits that the nation could expect’ ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A U.K.-Mauritius deal recognizing the latter’s claim to the Chagos Islands in the Western Indian Ocean could be in trouble as Mauritius seeks ...

When Mauritius became independent in the 1960s, London retained control of the Chagos Islands and forcibly displaced up to 2,000 people in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make way for the base.