Owing to a history of cultural exchange said to date back as far as the 15 th century, the Chinese new year is also a national holiday in ... to hand back the Chagos Islands.

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.

British media is reporting that the Republic of Mauritius has submitted changes to a proposed deal over the future of the Chagos Islands, with the country's new PM arguing the original agreement ...

After all, the Chagos Islands were more than 1300 miles away. The first post-independence prime minister, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, explained that Mauritius had been happy to sell its rights to ...

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. After decades ...

Sir Keir Starmer's 'surrender' of the Chagos Islands has been thrown into fresh doubt after the new prime minister of Mauritius rejected the deal done with his predecessor. Navin Ramgoolam said ...

Hundreds of Chagossians from around the UK gathered in London at a rally calling for a say in the future of the Chagos Islands. The group said they were angry after the UK government announced a ...

The new Mauritian government has ordered an independent review of the Chagos Islands agreement, The Independent understands, throwing the future of Sir Keir Starmer’s deal into even greater ...

The UK and Mauritius have been holding talks and hope to finalise the deal to hand back the Chagos Islands “as quickly as possible”. They held a “series of productive, ongoing conversations ...

I would like to reassure you that the legal and historical contexts of the Chagos Archipelago and the Falkland Islands are very different. UK Ministers have been very clear throughout the process ...

Mauritius has been demanding £800million a year and ‘billions of pounds in reparations’ as part of the beleaguered Chagos Islands talks, it emerged today. Sir Keir Starmer has been facing ...