Two women born on the Chagos Islands are seeking to take the British government to court over a proposed deal to transfer sovereignty of the disputed Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius.

home to a strategically important U.K.-U.S. naval and bomber base. The U.K. government announced in October that it intends to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius — though Britain would retain ...

A pair of British women who were born on the Chagos Islands are preparing to sue the UK government in a bid to stop the ...