The President of the Republic of Mauritius, Prithvirajsing Roopun, said on Friday the island nation would hold a general ...

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

The British government made the deal to return all the Chagos Islands, except for Diego Garcia, which holds a U.K.-U.S. Navy ...

Mauritius is an ally of China, and Beijing is licking its chops at the prospect of conducting electronic snooping of the base ...

The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly ...

Mauritius is a stable and prosperous Indian Ocean archipelago. Once dependent on sugar exports, the island has built up a ...

The environmental impacts of a change in management and human activity depends on what, if any, development takes place and ...

“Mauritius is at a crossroads economically—and perhaps, even politically,” says Pritish Behuria, associate professor at the ...

After decades of legal battles, Britain has agreed to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a former colony. The remote ...

In 1965, as part of the decolonisation process, the UK separated the islands from Mauritius, creating a new colony. From 1968 ...

The U.N. General Assembly followed that opinion with a resolution demanding that Britain end its "colonial administration" of ...

Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...