Mauritius Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has questioned the duration of the lease on a U.S.-British military base, he told a local newspaper, a contentious element of negotiations in which the UK plans to cede control of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

The prime minister of Mauritius has accused Sir Keir Starmer’s government of trying to fast-track its Chagos Islands deal, then backing out as Donald Trump’s inauguration loomed closer...

Describing Britain’s agreement with the former government as a “sell out”, Ramgoolam told the local L’Express newspaper the lease should also be indexed to inflation and take exchange rates into accou

Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam criticised the deal and described Britain’s agreement the government before his as a ‘sell out’.