PORT LOUIS (Reuters) -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 ...

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 ...

T he United Kingdom has finalized a historic £3.4 billion agreement to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to ...

Argentina's Foreign Ministry described the Chagos deal as "a historically significant event in the decolonisation process".

and in particular the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi," Mauritus PM Navin Ramgoolam said on Thursday. The signing ends months of delays over the deal, the details of which were first announced ...

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

PORT LOUIS – 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 ...

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.

Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam hailed the accord as a "great victory" for his country, which "completes the process of decolonisation of Mauritius, which began in 1968". But the UK ...