Tag: Chagos Island

Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, is in Mauritius this week to sign two agreements to expand Indian maritime cooperation with the small Indian Ocean island. The deals are seen as a way for Mauritius to allay its powerful ally’s concerns about growing Chinese sway in the Indian Ocean, ...

Navin Rangoolam, the newly inaugurated Prime Minister of Mauritius, said he wants an independent review of a draft agreement with the United Kingdom about control of the Chagos Islands. The agreement returns the sovereignty of the small Indian Ocean islands to Mauritius, ...

Current and former conservative lawmakers in the U.S. and UK are condemning a British government deal to handover the Chagos Islands to Mauritius over concerns that it could pave the way for a Chinese military base on the Indian Ocean archipelago. ...