During his participation at the 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU), held on 15 and 16 February 2025, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Prime ...

Lucie Tiatos, 78, tells me in Chagossian creole (translated through a young man Maxwell who speaks both), that "if god keeps ...

As part of the £90 million a year expected to be paid to Mauritius to keep control of the base, Sir Keir has promised a ...

Philippe Sands’ comments, accusing the Conservatives of playing into an antisemitic trope, were dismissed as an “absurd smear ...

Mauritius awaits Trump’s approval for UK to hand over archipelago, with Chagossians at odds over what’s in it for them.

Peter Lamb, the MP for Crawley – where thousands of Chagossians moved in the 1960s – says the plan is unfair on its residents ...

This historic deal will see the handover of the Chagos Islands by the UK Government to Mauritius. It marks a stark reversal ...

With British PM Keir Starmer seeking ‘strong protections’ for the US-British base on Diego Garcia, the Chagos Archipelago is back in the spotlight. What is the history of these islands, and why are ...

But both accept they must also get the approval of the United States, which operates a military base on the largest of the Chagos islands ... of only three of the archipelago's 55 islands ...

Since the 1970s, the UK and the United States have jointly operated the Diego Garcia military base on the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago, making the possibility of Mauritian sovereignty ...

Britain struck a deal in October to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius – a ... in 2019 said Britain should give up control of the archipelago after wrongfully forcing the population ...