{"id":1628,"date":"2026-03-06T13:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:18:28","slug":"mauritius-to-sue-uk-for-delay-inchagos-islanddeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/mauritius-to-sue-uk-for-delay-inchagos-islanddeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauritius to sue UK for delay in Chagos\u00a0island deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam said Thursday that Mauritius is planning to sue the UK for an impediment in ratifying the Chagos Island deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are exploring legal avenues in the Chagos case,&#8221; Ramgoolam told the Defi Media newspaper, adding that the government had begun consulting international law firms while awaiting the Indian Ocean territory&#8217;s formal transfer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramgoolam held ministerial talks earlier this week, where perceived delays by the UK were raised in implementing the Chagos agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If ratified, the deal would see the UK hand over ownership of the Indian Ocean territory to Mauritius and lease back the military base on the Archipelago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deal was thrown into uncertainty, however, after UK Foreign Office Minister Hamish Falconer said Britain was pausing the process because of discussions with the US in February. &#8211; AA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UK insists Mauritius WON&#39;T get any compensation if Chagos Islands &#39;surrender&#39; deal collapses&#8230; as Nigel Farage vows to lobby Trump again <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DktIq0Okt5\">https:\/\/t.co\/DktIq0Okt5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Daily Mail (@DailyMail) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyMail\/status\/2029904990349738477?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam said Thursday that Mauritius is planning to sue the UK for an impediment in ratifying the Chagos Island deal. &#8220;We are exploring legal avenues in the Chagos case,&#8221; Ramgoolam told the Defi Media newspaper, adding that the government had begun consulting international law firms while awaiting the Indian Ocean territory&#8217;s formal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[244,245,243,56,23,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-1628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa","8":"tag-chagos","9":"tag-diego-garcia","10":"tag-mauritius","11":"tag-starmer","12":"tag-trump","13":"tag-uk"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1nationmedia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}