Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, is a paradise of lush vegetation and white-sand beaches, surrounded by ...

A senior politician has claimed the UK’s American allies “will be furious” after the Government reached a deal with Mauritius over the future of the Chagos Archipelago. On October 3 the ...

The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been known as the British Indian Ocean Territory since being administratively ...

Joint statement between the governments of the Republic of Mauritius and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia ...

The agreement ends decades of dispute over Britain’s last African colony, from which thousands of people were forcibly ...

UK agrees to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius ...

The British government announced the deal over the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean on Thursday. Britain has ruled it for more than 200 years. The government said the deal will allow the ...

hoping to put an end to speculations over the future of British Overseas Territories following on the decision to hand the Chagos archipelago sovereignty (British Indian Ocean Overseas Territory ...

Britain said on Thursday it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said secured the future of ...

On October 3 the Government announced that it had reached a deal to recognise that “Mauritius is sovereign over the Chagos Archipelago”. The archipelago is in the Indian Ocean and contains a ...