Mauritius aims to halve its budget deficit to 4.9% of gross domestic product (GDP) in the fiscal year that starts in July, its prime minister said on Thursday, adding that urgent changes were needed ...

Mauritius deal to turn over the archipelago shores up Western influence in the Indian Ocean as China tries to increase its ...

While Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam praised the deal, it elicited mixed reactions from many Chagossians, the islands’ original inhabitants. Starting in 1968, they were displaced from the ...

Britain separated the Chagos Islands from Mauritius in 1965 before it became independent in 1968. A leaked internal Foreign ...

The Government claims that the agreement with Britain signed Thursday, May 22 to cede sovereignty of the disputed Chagos Islands to Mauritius guarantees the survival of a U.S.-U.K. military base that ...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Thursday he had signed a contentious deal to return the remote Chagos Islands to ...

MAURITIAN Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam on Thursday welcomed the signing of a "historical" agreement concerning the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, seeing it as a "great victory" for the country.

LONDON — Britain signed an agreement Thursday handing sovereignty over the contested and strategically located Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a move the government says ensures the future of a U.S.-U.K.

The Chagos Islands are in the middle of the Indian Ocean and home to a strategic military base on Diego Garcia.

The governments of Britain and Mauritius have signed a deal settling the future of the Chagos Islands after overcoming ...

Mauritius’ economic and legal reputation is under threat as Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam’s decade-old $6.6m money-laundering case remains deadlocked amid intimidation claims and fresh scandals. When ...