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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
Where exactly are the Chagos Islands, and why has the UK given them up ... Ms Pinchbeck said: “It involves changes. People are going to have to choose different technologies at the point they have to ...
New prime minister says UK’s proposed handover of the islands ‘would not produce the benefits that the nation could expect’ ...
Starmer’s Government had reached a deal with the former leader of Mauritius but the newly elected PM, Navinchandra Ramgoolam, ...
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.