Strategically located between East Africa and Southeast Asia, Diego Garcia serves as a surveillance centre for the Middle ...

A legal dispute is playing out after asylum seekers arrived on the secretive island in the Indian Ocean, with UK authorities ...

The policy reversal comes as Britain agrees to hand over control of the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius.

The recent transfer of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius marks the end of the last African colony of the United Kingdom and ...

UNHCR has approved a request by the UK to transfer 36 Sri Lankan asylum seekers from Diego Garcia and Rwanda to a transit ...

Government offers migrants on Diego Garcia - part of the Chagos Islands - move to Romania in long-running asylum claims ...

The UK has offered nearly 40 stranded migrants, held for years in a camp on a secretive UK-US military island in the Indian ...

For years, Mauritius demanded the UK end its control on the Chagos Archipelago. Why was their ownership a matter of ...

The UK said that “without” the new agreement signed today, “the long-term, secure operation of the [Diego Garcia] military base would be under threat, with contested sovereignty and legal challenges — ...

Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, is a paradise of lush vegetation and white-sand beaches, surrounded by crystal blue waters. But this is no tourist destination. It is strictly out of ...

The UK is giving up sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, including the strategic Diego Garcia base. This historic move ...

India played a “quiet but important role in the background” during the negotiations, firmly backing the Mauritian position ...