Mauritius has long argued it was forced to give up the islands in 1965 in return for independence from Britain ...

Washington said the deal protected the long-term, secure and effective operation of the strategic military base.

Raymonde Desiree was 25 when she was forced to leave her native Chagos Islands as Britain emptied the Indian Ocean ...

The U.K. will maintain de facto control over Diego Garcia, and the crucial U.S. military facility there, for another 99 years ...

The deal that’s been announced is a rare win-win moment in international relations, with all the relevant actors able to ...

India has maintained strong support for Mauritius over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands and played a quiet but important ...

The Government does not have the Get Out of Jail Free card it imagines when it comes to the matter of the Chagos Islands.

In a historic move, the UK will be handing over the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius while ...

The UK and US retain joint military base on Diego Garcia, an atoll in the Indian Ocean for which there have been longstanding ...

The UK government has announced that it will transfer sovereignty of a remote cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean to ...

The United Kingdom Foreign Office on Thursday said it had reached an agreement to hand over the rule of the Chagos Islands to ...

F ew places in the world are quite so remote as the 60 or so islands that make up the Chagos Archipelago. Africa sits 3,000km to the west, Indonesia 3,000km to the east; the nearest large land mass is ...