In a joint statement with Mauritian PM Pravind Jugnauth, Keir Starmer said that Mauritius will take control of the islands, ...

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

The Chagos Archipelago or Chagos Islands is a group of seven atolls made of more than 60 islands in the Indian Ocean. The islands are located ... with the exception of Diego Garcia that was leased to ...

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

Clifford D. May takes stock of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s recent agreement to cede control to Mauritius of the ...

The environmental impacts of a change in management and human activity depends on what, if any, development takes place and ...

Mauritius is a stable and prosperous Indian Ocean archipelago. Once dependent on sugar exports, the island has built up a ...

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

The UK had controlled the region since 1814 and had detached the Chagos Islands in 1965 from Mauritius to create the British ...

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

The U.N. General Assembly followed that opinion with a resolution demanding that Britain end its "colonial administration" of ...