As the US signs off on the formal sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory being ceded to Mauritius, Sean O’Grady ...

Britain split the islands away from Mauritius, a former British colony, in 1965, three years before Mauritius gained independence, and called the Chagos archipelago the British Indian Ocean Territory.

Britain and Mauritius near a deal to transfer Chagos Islands sovereignty, including U.S. military base, amid controversy.