After years of negotiations, the UK is giving up its sovereignty over a cluster of strategically important Indian Ocean ...

Diego Garcia, a small atoll in the Indian Ocean, has played a pivotal role in global geopolitics. Its strategic importance, ...

The transfer of the Chagos Islands marks the beginning of the end of US-UK military cooperation in the region and opens a new ...

While the UK and US retain a key strategic military base in the Indian Ocean, the two governments remain apprehensive over ...

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

China's naval support base in Djibouti in the horn of ... and it remains off limits to non-military personnel. Diego Garcia's location outside the cyclone belt is part of its appeal, as is its ...

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

The decision to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius has taken many by surprise. After years of painful negotiations, ...

Mauritius is getting sovereignty over the remote Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, but Britain will continue to ...

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said: “This government inherited a situation where the long-term, secure operation of the Diego Garcia military base was under threat, with contested sovereignty ...

Britain said that the operation of Diego Garcia, a strategic military base jointly operated with the United States, was protected by the agreement, which also allows Mauritius to resettle the rest ...

Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.