Explain the implications of the UK’s decision to relinquish sovereignty over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius Examine the strategic importance of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and how its control ...

The UK remains resolutely committed to all our Overseas Territories.” Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer defended giving up UK control of the Chagos Islands on Friday, and said ...

Foreign Office minister Stephen Doughty has attempted to scotch suggestions that the Falklands and Gibraltar could be next.

The Government said on Thursday it would transfer the strategically important Indian Ocean territory to Mauritius ...

Mauritius, in a deal that secures the future of a strategically important UK-US military base there. British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the agreement secures the vital military base at Diego ...

Prime Minister Starmer hands over the Chagos Islands to its former colony, Mauritius. Detail of an illustration featuring the ...

Mauritius says the UK's handing over of the long-contested Chagos Islands draws an important line under the archipelago's colonial history.

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

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 ...

The UK has agreed to return the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius. This marks the culmination of decades-long negotiations and efforts to decolonize the archipelago.

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

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