Yes and No. In effect on Monday a group of Chagos Islands indigenous people landed in one of the several atolls which make the Indian Ocean archipelago, claimed it by planting and flying a ...

Diego Garcia is one of more than a dozen strategic outposts deemed vital to global security by contesting alliances. The main ...

The Maldives has staked a surprise claim to the Chagos Islands, challenging ongoing negotiations between the UK and Mauritius ...

Perhaps local people might buy fares on the military ... A similar deal in the Chagos Islands would require the collaboration of the US military, which operates the Singapore link.

Our people were just put in animal houses ... U.K. announcement to agree to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius and against their "Exclusion" from Chagos ...

if we respect the sovereignty of Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands on the basis of ‘it’s what the people want’, have a ...

Resumed negotiations over a proposed deal to return the strategic Chagos Islands to Mauritius from Britain are not solely over financial compensation, the premier and a government official have said.

Starmer’s Government had reached a deal with the former leader of Mauritius but the newly elected PM, Navinchandra Ramgoolam, ...

Mauritius is still holding out on a deal to regain control of the strategic Chagos Islands from Britain, despite pressure from the United States which has a key military base there.

New prime minister says UK’s proposed handover of the islands ‘would not produce the benefits that the nation could expect’ ...

When Mauritius became independent in the 1960s, London retained control of the Chagos Islands and forcibly displaced up to 2,000 people in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make way for the base.