The UK will cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but indigenous people from a tiny island that houses a US ...

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

The U.K. has agreed to hand sovereignty of the long-contested Chagos Islands, an archipelago of more than 60 islands in the ...

After almost 59 years of controversial existence, the last vestige of the British Empire in the Indian Ocean, the British ...

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

The deal ensures continued operations at Camp Thunder Cove, part of the military base known as Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia, used by the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force and the British armed forces.

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

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

Islanders who were forced to leave their remote Indian Ocean home to make way for a U.S. military base half a century ago ...

Britain struck a deal allowing it to keeping control of a strategically important UK-US military base in the Indian Ocean for ...

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 ...

Operation of Diego Garcia, a strategic military base jointly operated by the UK and US, is protected by the agreement.