Approval from the White House was necessary to broker the deal due to U.S. military cooperation with the U.K. at the joint Diego Garcia base on the archipelago’s largest island. The Chagos ...

Two women born on the Chagos Islands are seeking to take the British government to court over a proposed deal to transfer sovereignty of the disputed Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius LONDON ...

Last month, Trump said he would support a deal between Mauritius and Britain over the future of a U.S.-British base in the Chagos Archipelago, a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 ...

He defended the deal, calling it "extremely important for our security". The Chagos Archipelago was separated from Mauritius in 1965, when Mauritius was still a British colony. Britain purchased ...