Diego Garcia, an atoll and one of the largest of the 52 islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, is geographically part of the Chagos Archipelago -- a British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), which is ...

Britain and Mauritius are finalising a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a disputed UK territory that is home to a major US military base, the UK government said Tuesday.

"There are no trade exports from BIOT into the United States ... Archipelago, provided by the mapping service Earthstar Geographics. Inset, the island of Diego Garcia, which hosts the U.S ...

Britain and Mauritius are finalizing ... the islands so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia base. Mauritius has long contested Britain’s claim to the archipelago and in recent years ...

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This relocation was done to make space for the development of United States military facilities based on an agreement with Britain. The military base began ... process of Mauritius, especially the ...

The Chagos Archipelago was separated from Mauritius in 1965, when Mauritius was still a British colony. Britain purchased the ...

(Bloomberg) -- Mauritius’s new prime minister ordered an independent review of a deal with Britain involving a strategically important US-UK military base ... of the Chagos archipelago to ...

LONDON — Britain and Mauritius are finalizing a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a disputed U.K. territory that is home to a major U.S. military base, the British government ...

Britain evicted up to 2,000 people from the islands so the U.S. military could build the Diego Garcia base. Mauritius has long contested Britain’s claim to the archipelago, and in recent years ...