Taxpayers are funding a £12 million green aid project in Mauritius as ministers rush to hand the country billions under the ...
The Prime Minister, Dr Navinchandra Ramgoolam, expressed, yesterday, his confidence that there would be a positive resolution over the agreement between Mauritius and the United Kingdom on the ...
Mauritius welcomes the prospect of U.S. President Donald Trump examining a deal reached by Britain and Mauritius over the ...
Chagos islanders still dream of returning home five decades after being expelled by Britain, but with Donald Trump in the ...
A British minister denied on Wednesday media reports that the government could end up paying billions of pounds more to ...
Frankie Bontemps, a founding member of Chagossian Voices, said people who originate from ... programme of visits for Chagossians to the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia.
Some 2,000 people were expelled from the Chagos Islands in the 1960s and 1970s ... He was born on Peros Banhos, one of only three of the archipelago's 55 islands inhabited when Britain began ...
and paves the way for the indigenous people of the Chagos Islands – the Chagossians – to resettle parts of the archipelago for the first time in more than 50 years. The deal’s detractors are ...
rejecting Mauritian sovereignty over the archipelago, which is located some 1,680 kilometres northeast of the Indian Ocean nation. They have pointed out that the Chagossian people – who were forcibly ...
There is hope that the historic agreement securing the country’s sovereignty over the Chagos archipelago will be ... to the deal was coming from the people who still had a colonial hangover ...