The UK has agreed to transfer sovereignty of the largely uninhabited Chagos archipelago to Mauritius. The islands have been ...

The UK will return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, but Diego Garcia will remain under UK-US control. Chagossians, displaced ...

The UK government's decision to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius surprisingly threatens the extinction of millions of ...

Mauritius is an ally of China, and Beijing is licking its chops at the prospect of conducting electronic snooping of the base ...

The British government unsurprisingly wants to draw a line under that sorry history. On October 3rd it announced plans to ...

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

The sun will finally set on the British Empire, reportedly heavily due to President Joe Biden's pressure on Prime Minister ...

Government offers migrants on Diego Garcia - part of the Chagos Islands - move to Romania in long-running asylum claims ...

Joe Biden pushed the UK into giving up the Chagos Islands over concerns the US would lose control of an important air base, ...

After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian ...

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

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