The UK is considering front-loading its funding package for Mauritius as part of a sweetened deal ceding sovereignty of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Don’t try to fool Chagossian people. It must remain British islands." Conservative peer ... He called for a referendum of all Chagos Islanders who are dispersed between the UK, Mauritius and ...

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, ...

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

One of the last remnants of the British Empire, the Chagos Islands have been under British control since 1814. Britain evicted as many as 2,000 people from the islands in the 1960s and 1970s so ...

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.