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

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

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

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

The UK government announced last week that it will cede sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The agreement ...

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

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

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

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

THE Chagos Islands are an archipelago that have made headlines after the UK agreed to hand sovereignty over the group to ...