Britain has offered to pay hundreds of millions upfront to Mauritius in order to secure the Chagos Islands deal ...

The Government is currently scrambling to save its agreement to surrender control of the Indian Ocean archipelago, which ...

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

Downing Street would not be drawn on financial arrangements, but it is thought Whitehall could stump up a number of years’ ...

The UK has offered to frontload payments to Mauritius in a bid to finalise the contentious Chagos Islands deal before Donald ...

The UK Government’s agreement on the future of the Chagos Islands has run into trouble following elections in Mauritius and ...

The British colonised Chagos Islands are a remote but strategically important archipelago in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It had been part of Mauritius which itself was a British colony.

The islands are more or less uninhabitable and ... of the British empire – both of which are neatly united in the Chagos archipelago. The whole reason Lefty lawyers – Starmer included ...

The Governor, Alison Blake CMG, said in Government House statement: “I would like to reassure you that the legal and historical contexts of the Chagos Archipelago and the Falkland Islands are ...

ongoing conversations and exchanges on finalizing a historic Treaty on the exercise of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago. Further on it said “both countries reiterated their commitment to ...

In addition, as the then prime minister Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam later pointed out, Mauritius had little interest in retaining the islands. The Chagos archipelago, he said, was “a portion of our ...

From the culinary specialities of Tasmania to the plethora of wildlife in the Seychelles, islands far and wide are home to a ...