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 ...

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 ...

It is unclear what the US stance on the deal is exactly, but last year, before he was in office, Secretary of State Marco ...

Britain struck a deal in October to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius - a former colony that became independent in 1968 - while retaining control under a 99-year lease of the ...

Britain and Mauritius denied on Wednesday media reports that London could end up paying double the amount in a renegotiated ...

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

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

Slam poet Geraldine Baptiste pulls no punches when telling the story of her “Granpapa”, one of the 1,500-plus people ripped from a peaceful existence on the Chagos Islands by the British to ...

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

Allowing China to establish even a minimal footprint in the Chagos archipelago would dramatically shift the balance of power in the region and weaken U.S. deterrence. Trump must make it clear to ...

In 2019, the International Court of Justice ruled that Britain's separation of Chagos from Mauritius was illegal, and the UN General Assembly adopted a non-binding resolution, giving London six months ...

Britain struck a deal in October to cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to ... should give up control of the archipelago after wrongfully forcing the population to leave. Europecategory Europe ...