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

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

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

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

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

The U.K. and Mauritius announced an agreement in October to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, a chain of more than 60 islands just south of the equator off the tip of India. Under the ...

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.

Britain has been asked to pay up billions of pounds of taxpayers' cash as part of the Chagos Islands surrender ... and new PM ...

The opposition Progressive Alliance defeated the outgoing government’s Lepep coalition in the Mauritian elections held on 10 November 2024. The results are indisputable. With 62% of the vote, the ...

Despite there being a major UK-US airbase on Diego Garcia - the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago - the UK Prime Minister agreed a deal to give up the islands to Mauritius in October.

Mauritius's deputy prime minister has hinted that negotiations with the UK over the future of the Chagos Islands are being ...